Word: coast-to-coast
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...formerly used for monitoring the whereabouts of locomotives. Southern Pacific, which developed the Sprint long-distance telephone service and sold it in 1983 to GTE for $740 million, is currently developing another advanced communications system. In a venture with Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern, the company is creating a coast-to-coast fiber-optics network called Fibertrak that can simultaneously carry 300,000 voice and computer-data transmissions and will be laid down next to the railroad tracks...
...same time, Americans just scraping by have sometimes felt truculently "good about America" at moments when the upper middle class was despairing. Today many Americans are in deep economic distress, and it is difficult for them to join in the feeling that the U.S. has suddenly become a coast-to-coast celebration...
...back to the 1950s, must have seemed like the perfect candidate for celluloid incarnation. Reeve, who has elsewhere proven that he can act as easily as bend steel bars, would certainly have demanded a salary several orders of magnitude greater than the cost of a nubile unknown. A second coast-to-coast star search would generate gobs of favorable publicity. And the same people who enjoyed watching Charlie's Angels or Linda Carter bounce around as Wonder Woman are a sure bet to see this movie...
...coast-to-coast victory was forged...
...price schedules are often a bewildering maze of choices and restrictions. A coast-to-coast flight on a full-service carrier like United Airlines may have dozens of different fares that hinge on such variables as when tickets are bought and the length of a traveler's stay. Moreover, the price of flights of comparable distances may differ widely, depending on how much competition exists on that route. To make matters more confusing, carriers keep close watch on one another's prices and adjust their own prices accordingly. United alone makes 3,500 fare changes...