Word: ashes
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Guitar Center has been able to expand in part because of weak competition. The country's next biggest music-store chain, privately held Sam Ash, has 40 stores concentrated on the East Coast. A 79-year-old family-owned business, Sam Ash doesn't have the capital to grow at Guitar Center's pace, says William Blair & Co. analyst Zackfia, nor can it match the big chain's massive catalog and online sales. Another national retailer, Mars Music, went under last fall...
...that millennia of human activity have favored the growth of pine forests, which are prone to fires, over the hardwoods that originally grew in the region. Now with more people than ever along the Med, municipal officials still obdurately refuse to reverse course. "Instead of planting the oak and ash, mayors plant quick-growing pines so they can point to the new forest before their terms run out," Thinon says. "Then we get more fires." France passed a law in 1995 demanding that local authorities take strict fire-prevention measures, but in the hardest-hit Var region not a single...
Gemayel was introduced by KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye, who welcomed the former Harvard affiliate back to Cambridge for the event, sponsored by KSG’s Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation...
...that Ash Wednesday, the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston granted a special dispensation to the many Catholics who were unable to get to a church. Despite the weather and the dispensation, about 450 people attended the noon Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Harvard Square, with some making their way to church on skis, The Crimson reported...
...that Ash Wednesday, the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston granted a special dispensation to the many Catholics who were unable to get to a church. Despite the weather and the dispensation, about 450 people attended the noon Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Harvard Square, with some making their way to church on skis, The Crimson reported...