Word: across
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college and was confronted with Harvard's similar no-cable policies and, furthermore, a reduced fare of five viewable channels, the television was no more enticing. Freshman year, we didn't even have a set in our suite. When study breaks were in order, we'd go across the hall where the reception was so fuzzy that the majority of the dialogue was drowned out by yelling back and forth at one other to adjust the antenna...
...parking lottery offers a choice between lots at the Business School, Peabody Terrace, DeWolfe, or 29 Garden St. Even after stating their preference, most road warriors automatically receive a plum assignment--across the River...
...Harvard students do not take well to being parking-spot-less, or even worse, an exile across the Charles. And Whittingham hears no end of the complaints. Unaccepting of anything but the best, students bombard his office with complaints of their poor parking status. When banished to Allston, Whittingham hears the questions, "Where's Allston?, The Business School? That's ridiculous!" Or, better yet, "I have to go across the bridge? What bridge...
...learn from a somewhat confused but helpful sales attendant that there are 250 stores across the country; they are usually in malls; and that this store is only one of two freestanding stores-the other is in Manhattan...
...walk in, we can't turn to the right. Or left. But we do get sucked into a tunnel of table displays. Schor points out how similar the sales style is between the books here and the Abercrombie emblazoned T-shirts across the street. "What Barnes & Noble has done here is part of a shift from hand-selling a book as a unique commodity to selling books like they're selling anything -- Godiva, chocolates, calendars. . . anything...