Word: freights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funeral arrangements cost about $2,000 to $3,000. There are two main expenses: a sealed metal coffin that meets airline standards and freight costs of about $700. "It would be cheaper to cremate them, but some older priests won't do a Mass if there is a cremation," Tobon says. He raises the money through appeals on two local radio stations. "Sometimes people will know the family or the village and send a donation. There is never enough." The money goes straight to the funeral home. He still owes for the last 15 funerals...
...uninspired sign featuring a cartoon CSX conductor--one of those corporate image-enhancing niceties that until a few weeks ago blurred into the desolate industrial landscape like so many slabs of sheet metal. For whom the sign's message is intended has always been unclear; CSX trains only carry freight, and it's too far away for motorists traveling the nearby interstate to view it. In hindsight, though, one can only wonder whether the sign is intended for that small population of train jumpers who somehow make Flint a destination...
...Roderick Bell, an Ohio state dropout turned businessman, bought two trucks as a tax write-off. Today Bell's firm, Texas American Express, shelters mainly profit. Sales are heading toward $12 million, and 80 freight trucks--whose colors range from salmon to emerald green to pink because employees can pick the shades they please--ply the roads from its modest base in Dallas to the Northeast and the West Coast. Bell is a success--and he has to work harder than ever to stay that...
...using the body of paint to access and encompass the body of the world. To call it abstract, even when it was most so, is to ignore this. In what was probably his finest painting, Excavation, 1950, one sees desire at full stretch: every form carries its physical freight--elbow, groin, folded belly, thigh, slipping and jostling in the paint as though mud wrestling in pigment. De Kooning could find metaphors of energy that none of his contemporaries could rival. And when he carried his "impurity" beyond the decorum of abstraction, as in the great women of the early...
...well-heeled parents who pay the full freight at Penn help support not only other, needier students but also the tuition reimbursements of very comfortable professors. They pay again through federal taxes to help cover the costs of federal financial-aid programs. And if they live in Pennsylvania, they pay yet again, through taxes that not only produce the $36 million state appropriation that went directly to Penn last year but that also subsidize the state's public colleges and universities...