Word: unitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just starting out in business and in need of financial backing-who guarantee a reasonably low, price-fixed funeral for members. There are about 42 such co-ops in the U.S. and Canada already, and the number is growing, generally in middle-income brackets. One group, founded by a Unitarian church in Seattle, offers funerals for only $75; in San Francisco the Bay Area Funeral Society members, who can join for a one-time administrative fee of $10, pay as little as $125; a Cleveland group charges $300; in Toronto the price...
Chief advantage for members is that they can specify in writing exactly what kind of funerals they want and precisely what the cost should be. Explains Unitarian-Universalist Minister Robert MacPherson, of Auburn, Me.: "We're not trying to fight the funeral directors. This is no attempt to undercut their business. And we don't mean to dictate to families how to run their funerals. But I've seen husbands, wives and children agree on how they wanted funeral services arranged, and then just lose control...
Rosenberger. 42, a retired Unitarian clergyman who grew rich selling "nature foods," and is currently awaiting trial on a federal charge of misbranding products...
...Lunch Act grants money to states to buy food for non profit lunches in both private and public schools. Kennedy's answer is that such legislation carries out one narrowly defined purpose of the Government: to help student welfare. Boston University's Albert R. Beisel Jr., a Unitarian, endorses this argument as in tune with the kind of distinctions the court is inclined to make...
...public interest over the proposed 15 story building on stilts grew yesterday, the fight extended all the way to the pulpit of the First Parish, Unitarian Church, where two University professors spoke out against the project...