Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specialized a business as exists: creating artificial environments, including the synthetic palms at the Mirage in Las Vegas. It is a business, however, that has taken off worldwide in the past decade or so. As more and more states and localities have legalized gambling, casinos are sprouting from coast to coast in the U.S. and prospering enough to draw the interest of foreigners who want to copy the gaudy U.S. look...
Harvard charged out of the gate on the legs of Hill, whose coast-to-coast layup in the opening minute gave the Crimson a 4-2 lead--one it never relinquished...
...Ellen Mayeron, manager of the waterfront Mucky Duck restaurant on Captiva Island, off southwest Florida's Gulf Coast, on yesterday's end of the official hurricane season. Because of less windy conditions over the Atlantic, just three hurricanes blew in this season, compared with the annual average...
Driving on the highway, I am stuck behind a black delivery truck from East Coast Custom Car. On the back of the truck in bright yellow lettering is a list of things sold at East Coast Custom Car: stereos, alarm systems, bed liners, 4X4 accessories, trailer hitches, fog lights, wheels "and so much more." I make a note to include these items in my accounts, then turn off toward the bay, which is winter blue already. The powerboats have disappeared. The cormorants swarm in a black mass near the mouth of a creek, their snake heads craning for invisible fish...
...thoroughly enjoyed Hunter Thompson's story about his adventures driving up the California coast [SHOW BUSINESS, Nov. 10], even though he trashed my profession of astrology. What emerges in the piece is how the tenderness and love of a woman can tame the heart of even the most vulgar, nihilistic and wounded man as he realizes he's past his prime. Perhaps a competent spiritual astrologer could have validated Thompson's complex pathology 30 years ago. ROBERT P. BLASCHKE Nehalem...