Word: pined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steel plants, its riverbank paved for a parking lot, its squat office buildings ringed by mounds of sooty snow, Albertville hardly seems destined for global fame. But raise your eyes above the small-town skyline: the Olympian glory of the French Alps explodes in a pastel sunset, sparkling through pine-serrated glaciers. After Sarajevo's Bosnian backwater and Calgary's urban stampede, the 16th Olympic Winter Games will be a soaring high-wire act: 57 events staged in 10 venues across seven valleys and 620 sq. mi. of the Savoie region's magnificent mountain peaks. Following Albertville's opening ceremony...
There was something very comforting about coming back to Cambridge after Thanksgiving and seeing all the Christmas lights and pine tree wreaths adorning the Square. I rejoiced in the mall rampages and the Hallmark commercials. It relieves so much pressure not to have to deal with any of that bull...
...Ransom, at 40-some, is getting too old for this. He bosses a gang that poisons tracts of scrub forest with herbicide, so that the land can be planted with fast-growing pine. That's days. Nights, he drinks, bar fights, gambles, cats around, aggravates the local cops. In between he cruises the Mississippi back roads in an old pickup, drinking beer from a big cooler...
...depth of the bench was another positive factor. Wheaton has been able to call players up from the pine and suffer no appreciable dropoff in play on the field. Yesterday, Kristy Gaschler, Schneider and Patty Kornfield turned in quality minutes, with Schneider scoring the insurance goal unassisted...
...nearly dry, clearing the way for the reappearance of palm trees, willows and migratory waterfowl. Off the coast of Scotland, Bernard Planterose, a warden with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and his wife Emma have planted 20,000 slender saplings -- downy birch, rowan, oak and Scotch pine -- to bring back the forest on tiny, windswept Isle Martin. And at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, ground crews and volunteers have returned some 280 hectares (700 acres) of former cornfields to a rustling expanse of big bluestem and Indian grass...