Word: deftness
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Which wouldn't matter if not for the tendency of Loewen and SCI to raise prices after taking control. The consolidators increase revenue through a combination of price hikes and a deft reconfiguring, or "remerchandising," of casket showrooms to ensure that customers buy caskets with far better profit margins. At the same time, they cut their costs by buying caskets and other materiel de mort at volume discounts and by linking funeral homes in clusters that share hearses, embalming rooms and other services. You may deposit your late Uncle Harry in that luxurious if slightly creepy Colonial house...
...lead pass from Philpott, freshman Jamin Kerner broke away to the right side of the Brown net, where he roofed a deft backhander over Holowaty's left shoulder for his first collegiate goal and to give Harvard a 2-0 lead...
With time to act, UMass junior Erica Iverson picked up a ball, left at the top of the penalty area. She struck a deft shot to the top left corner to beat Harvard goalkeeper Jen Burney, who also had no chance to stop the amazing shot...
...soap opera set in late eighteenth-century France: scheming aristocrats with too much time on their hands manipulate their friends and lovers in order to further their agendas of pleasure and revenge. "Liaisons" could easily be nothing more than a frothy, cynical delight, but there is some very deft social commentary at the heart of Christopher Hampton's play. The new production by director Adriana Abdenur '97, which continues this weekend at Agassiz Theater, captures the play's thematic complexity and scathing...
...Boston Ballet certainly has a remarkable, and well-deserved, reputation. For years, the company has thrilled and delighted audiences with a deft mixture of classic ballet and innovative new dance productions. "The Nutcracker," for instance, remains a perennial classic, holiday season after holiday season. And just last year the snazzy, jazzy world premiere of "Hot and Cool" won over audiences and critics alike...