Word: coast-to-coast
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...colleges that rely largely on student fees to meet their expenses, hard times are giving birth to the hard sell. Faced with a shrinking high-school population, some institutions have gone head-hunting with coast-to-coast billboard blitzes, offers of tuition discounts and mobile recruiting vans. Until alumni complaints forced it to stop, Eastern Oregon College even offered a bounty of $60 for new students from Oregon, and $100 for out-of-state catches...
Since he has coast-to-coast legal troubles, it is no surprise that former Presidential Adviser John Ehrlichman has coast-to-coast lawyers. In Washington, his attorney is crusty, conservative John J. Wilson, 72, who took some of the heat off his client by lecturing Senate Watergate probers as if they were first-year law students. In Los Angeles, where Ehrlichman is charged with perjury and complicity in the office break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, he has retained equally feisty Joseph A. Ball, 70. But Ball is no conservative; his selection by Ehrlichman...
...thought that rescuing sinners from a wicked world and putting them in solitary with a Bible was more humane than flogging, branding or the stocks. But Miss Mitford can find no Christian words for the costs, theories and failures of a punitive system that has since swelled into a coast-to-coast community of 1.33 million incarcerated Americans...
Moreover, the boycott triggered by that initial walkout has spread from coast-to-coast, forced down the price of Farah stock, and clearly shoved the Company up against the wall. How else to explain the surprising appearance of this ad in a newspaper some 2000 miles from the Company's plants in El Paso, Texas...
...first-timers, the Lafonts stuck pretty much to prime attractions. They had signed up three months in advance for an economy charter flight to the U.S. They set out, with a budget of $2,000 for fares, meals and hotels, on a whirlwind coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. During their 48-hour stay in Los Angeles, they sampled bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic, paid a visit to Disneyland, took a bus tour of Beverly Hills and a trip to the sprawling baroque mansion of Silent Film Star Harold Lloyd. Though pleased by the friendliness of Americans...