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A bill currently working its way through the US Congress, known as The Bereaved Consumer Bill of Rights (HR 3655) would bring all "vendors" of mortuary wares -- Amazon and Costco, archbishops and their factotums -- under the same consumer protections the Federal Trade Commission applied to funeral homes back in the mid-1980's.
Thomas Lynch: Bamboozles, Sacred and Secular Thomas Lynch 2010
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Bereaved families can check in their dead at the Lastel corpse hotel while they wait for one of the city's overworked crematoriums.
Asia in Pictures 2011
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Bereaved families of military personnel became increasingly vocal about their losses, and their grief fueled critiques of our military engagement.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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Bereaved families were grateful and many joined the prime minister to pay tribute.
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Bereaved Totilas fans reacted with a Facebook campaign to keep the stallion with his popular Dutch rider Edward Gal .
Defying Neigh-Sayers, a New Star Hoofs It Onto the World Stage Mary M. Lane 2011
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Bereaved of that influence, and now at the mercy of their own illiberal Left, the liberals are at a bit of a loss, as ChrisTS relates.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Duke Reverses Exclusion of Pro-Life Talk from the Duke Women’s Center 2010
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Bereaved families of military personnel became increasingly vocal about their losses, and their grief fueled critiques of our military engagement.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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The bravest and wisest Israelis and Palestinians were those who joined in the "Circle of Bereaved Families" to insist that the killing of their own children by "the other side" made peace crucial, not impossible.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Modern Pharaohs: What Does Egypt's Uprising Mean? Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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It's time to pass the Bereaved Consumer Bill of Rights, with no exemptions.
Thomas Lynch: Bamboozles, Sacred and Secular Thomas Lynch 2010
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Bereaved and bereft, a middle-aged divorcee sits at the edge of a children's playpark and indulges in regrets over the family he might have had.
Book Review Roundup 2010
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