Word: piers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high-decibel delirium is "Timecapsule One" of a weekly Friday-night event billed as "NASA" (Nocturnal Audio and Sensory Awakening), an all-night techno "rave" that culminates with breakfast and bungee jumping from a Hudson River pier as the sun's first rays warm the spire of the Empire State Building...
Golf and Tennis Expo--Through Feb. 17.World Trade Center, Commonwealth Pier, Boston. $7;free for children under...
...many American business people: "I went to Japan, I worked with some lighting people there, they liked my product and placed orders for it. It & took me nine months after I shipped it to get the merchandise into the customer's store. The Japanese found problems at the pier, they couldn't find the merchandise -- whatever they could do to keep us from getting our product into the store, they did. They had all kinds of inspections that we did conform to, but then they make you wait a month before they inspect the product." Says Clyde Prestowitz: "Not every...
...George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier...
...right base for such ventures is a handsome and well-run lodge on Ambergris Cay called El Pescador, which has all the best guides -- and a welcoming committee of two ospreys that have built their nest above its pier and greet the arriving angler with shrill wheep-wheep-wheeps of alarm. El Pescador was built by a German, Juergen Krueger, and his Wisconsin-born wife. They started it about 18 years ago, when no sober carpenter could be hired on the cay. Much of the work, from laying cinder blocks to routing the panels in the heavy mahogany doors...