On the West Coast the University of California hospitals in San Francisco and Los Angeles, plus Stanford and the University of Washington would be on the list.

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When they turned 18, Mary-Kate and Ashley took sole ownership of Dualstar and moved from the West Coast to enroll in New York University, where inspiration for The Row took hold during a semester off.

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Born to a newspaper-vendor father in Jamnagar, a small commercial town in the west coast of India, Budhabatti studied physics at a university in India.

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A. from Stanford University and has used those connections to win business on the U.S. West Coast.

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