Word: coast-to-coast
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...week before the attack occurred. Surely glamorizing one's own posthumous press photos is only a variation on the own-funeral fantasy. In any case, she no doubt hoped and expected that roommate-kills-roommate-at-Harvard would be big news. She was right: dead by eight AM, coast-to-coast on CNN by nine. Though I was not more than a few thousand feet down the river when the attack occurred, I heard about it first 45 minutes later from my roommate's cousin in California...
...ought to be known from coast-to-coast as the firmament of arts in New England...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Even as telephone and cable-TV companies join forces to wire up America, cellular firms are racing to create networks in the air. Last week Nextel Communications, a New Jersey wireless company, gained just such a coast-to-coast system when it acquired the cellular operations of Dial Page of South Carolina plus the mobile-radio business of Motorola in deals valued at $2.7 billion. The combinations will pit Nextel, a firm with 200,000 customers, against AT&T, which agreed to pay $12.6 billion for McCaw Cellular last year. Also in the fray are Nynex...
...cellular operator, which is being acquired by AT&T for $12.6 billion. Even though it will cost at least $2.5 billion to rebuild the SMR system into a cellular network, Nextel, which is backed by Comcast Corp. and Japan's Matsushita & Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, intends to have a coast-to-coast wireless network up and running...
...Amtrak's coast-to-coast Sunset Limited derailed last week while crossing a damaged bridge near Mobile, Alabama. The accident sent the engine and several cars hurtling into the Bayou Canot, trapping passengers in the water and an ensuing fire. Forty-seven died -- nearly equaling all the other deaths in Amtrak's 23-year history. The apparent cause: a barge struck the bridge minutes before the train came across...