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...Low-cost California crematories are charged with cutting corners...
Denning insists that the lawsuits are part of a "smear campaign" led by funeral directors jealous of his low-cost, high-volume business (last year the Neptune Society accounted for almost one-quarter of all California cremations). "I'm taking money from undertakers' pockets and putting it in the pockets of the living," says Denning, whose white goatee, folksiness, and success have earned him the irreverent nickname "Colonel Cinders." For less than $400, Denning promises that ashes of the departed will be taken out to sea on an elegant yacht, then scattered across the Pacific under flags...
...Because of the new competition, the average price of shipping a truckload of freight is 25% to 30% lower than it was four years ago. The price squeeze has been tough on unionized carriers, which have laid off one-third of the Teamsters members employed in the industry. Meanwhile, low-cost nonunion trucking operations are mushrooming. Overnite Transportation, a nonunion company based in Richmond, has expanded its network from 21 states to 31 since deregulation. Its revenues rose by 25% between 1979 and 1982, despite the recession...
...Increasing public funding of low-cost rehabilitation of affordable housing under rent control and stopping bank discrimination against rent-controlled properties...
...power to create and store synthesized sound. There are at least a dozen similar products on the market, from Apple's $45 Musicomp, to alphaSyntauri's $1,995 Computer Music System, which includes full keyboard, 3,000-note memory and 16-track recording system. But no other low-cost music program makes it so easy to do so much. The key to the software's success is what the industry calls its "user interface." It avoids computerese and makes notation as simple and transparent as possible. To play the notes, the user simply points at a picture...