Ad campaign dies for cemetery owner
Article Abstract:
The Pennsylvania Attorney General has ordered Cornerstone Family Services to stop its complementary burial space advertisements in newspaper ads and direct mail. Attorney General Mike Fisher said the company's advertising was deceptive. Cornerstone was offering a free burial plot in one 22 cemeteries in 17 countries in the advertisements but did not mention that there would be fees for opening the ground, closing the plot and for other services. The company was also ordered to pay $55,000 in civil penalties and reimburse the 10,000 that the state spent for the investigation.
Publication Name: Advertising/Communications Times
Subject: Advertising, marketing and public relations
ISSN: 0193-4457
Year: 2001
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Life for men who abducted and murdered accountant
Article Abstract:
Matthew Pearce and Darren Jones have both been jailed for life for kidnapping and then executing accountant Grant Price. Their victim was selected at random from a car park, kidnapped in his own car and driven to a remote beach, where he was stabbed. Police believe that the two men initially intended to rob the victim, but that they then got carried away by a fantasy.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
A perfect set of teeth; there's noting sexier than a zipper
Article Abstract:
The zipper has been the subject of a Broadway song in "Pal Joey," where the amazing properties of the zipper were demonstrated by a strip-tease artists. The zipper has been important in getting into and out of clothing. The clasp locker was shown in 1893 and over several decades the zipper was perfected.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject:
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Classes for the wounded and self-indulgent fools. A lesson in Russian.?
- Abstracts: A commitment to security and growth. Spontaneous strike notice: who is responsible?
- Abstracts: Men at work and wives at tea. Steve de Shazer: June 25, 1940-September 11, 2005
- Abstracts: A life in two acts. Charlotte's millions
- Abstracts: Uncle Tom Cobley and all. Remembering P.W. Manchester