I had gotten to New Zealand using British Airways miles acquired entirely with bonus miles from signing up and using a Chase credit card.
She bought both of our airline tickets with bonus miles acquired through her credit card but wanted me to pay her the monetary value of the ticket she got for me.
But instead Cook bought a mile uptown, acquiring the entire block from 78th to 79th Streets from Fifth to Madison Avenues.
Parcells wants to travel the extra 100,000 miles to acquire new players for the same reason chefs make the long haul -- to keep everybody honest.
As Christiana Z. Peppard, a professor of theology at Fordham University and author of "Just Water," told me in a recent conversation, it is women and children who are often most affected by these situations, since the burden of procuring water falls to them — in bodily form; often they must walk miles to acquire it and carry the heavy liquid back home.
In pre-history, these mountains provided the raw material for early weapons; Native Americans throughout the southwest would travel hundreds of miles to acquire obsidian which, despite sounding like a Stan Lee comic book villain, is actually cooled volcanic rock from the crater for their arrowheads and spear points.
Without hearing about any clear conclusion one way or the other if a merger will actually take place, does it behoove us to keep acquiring miles with US Air?
Gantz said he did not believe the Iranian leadership was prepared to "go the extra mile" to acquire nuclear weapons because it was "composed of very rational people" who understood the consequences.
These programs want to see that you're serious and willing to go the extra mile to acquire the knowledge and experience that will help you to be successful in school.
Some joke that the Grand Infinity might be a better name for it, given the length, some 80 miles, the difficulty of acquiring the land and the cost, around $25 billion, including needed improvements and extensions to three existing lines.
