21.   Each day, thousands stand in line outside U.S. consulates in towns across Mexico waiting to be interviewed as part of the application process.

22.   Fifteen years into the AIDS epidemic, long a fact of life in big cities, its grim touch has gradually reached into small towns across the country.

23.   For decades, Wal-Mart has been a retail force in small towns across the West and Middle West.

24.   Freddy is the sheriff of Garrison, N.J., a small town just across the river from New York City that is home to dozens of NYPD cops.

25.   Gone are the huge printing plants in cities and towns across a wide geographic area.

26.   He also hopes to build the case that cities and towns across the state should have access to any extra funds.

27.   He was referring to New Jersey towns across from the George Washington Bridge.

28.   Hundreds of thousands of young men exposed to a gruesome and demoralizing war have brought back their experiences to cities and towns across Russia.

29.   In a town across the way, orange streetlights tried to flicker to life, while twinkling lights came on aboard the vessels assembled on the water below.

30.   In cities and towns across Massachusetts, turf battles are raging between local fire departments and private for-profit ambulance companies that compete to provide emergency medical services.