Word: stewart
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According to a survey by the Memorial Society of North Texas, which seeks to help members arrange economical funerals, homes owned by Loewen, SCI and Louisiana-based Stewart Enterprises (the third largest funeral company) were consistently more expensive than their independent competitors. In Amarillo, Texas, for example, a Loewen home charged $1,638 for the basic services of its funeral director and staff--the "nondeclinable" fee allowed by the Federal Trade Commission, known more casually in the industry as the "cover charge." The other three Amarillo funeral homes in the survey charged an average of $863. A TIME price survey...
...have driven prices so high in some markets that they have opened new opportunities for the growing alternative-funeral industry. Russell Moore, a cultural anthropologist, located his Casket Gallery International--which sells low-priced caskets--on the outskirts of Dallas. He based it there precisely because SCI, Loewen and Stewart had such a huge presence in the region. "Many families are literally being priced out of the funeral industry," he says. "They're choosing cremation, or they're trying to do it themselves...
...swashbuckle and toward more contemporary themes. Metropolitan Opera general manager Joseph Volpe notes that last year's stagings of Philip Glass's minimalist opera The Voyage didn't sell out, but he saw a whole new crowd in his theater. Increasingly, composers are turning to emotionally charged contemporary subjects. Stewart Wallace's Harvey Milk is considered a forerunner of a new creative order. On the drawing boards are works about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Michael Daugherty, and John Duffy's Black Water, about Chappaquiddick...
...urge the Harvard student body to give Eric and Joe a chance. --Michael J. Passante '99, Council Secretary; John Appelbaum '97, Council Treasurer; Tally Zingher '99, Campus Life Cmte. Co-Chair; Catherine D. Rucker '99, Campus Life Cmte. Vice-Chair; Beth A. Stewart '00, First-year Caucus Chair; Jeffrey M. Goldfarb '97; Justin E. Jones '97; Adam S. Vaina '97; David S. Abrams '98; Andrew J. Green '98; William M. Jay '98; Enmi Sung '98; Bill F. Abeley '99; Eli M. Ceryak '99; Josh Derman '99; Carolyne L. Guss '99; Steven J. Mitby '99; Andrew J. Owen '99; Maneesh...
Given the possibility of unintended consequences, should Molly's parents let antidrug messages through? What about Martha Stewart? Would throwing a V-chip block on Martha Stewart be extreme? Maybe. But how would they feel if they arrived home one day and found Molly arranging fall foliage into a perfect centerpiece...