Word: accidentally
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It has not been a pleasant summer for Suzuki Samurai dealers. After Consumer Reports branded the sporty vehicle as "not acceptable" because it was prone to roll over while turning sharply at speeds slow as 40 m.p.h., customers shunned Suzuki showrooms. U.S. sales of the Samurai fell from 6,074...
-- Hertz, the largest U.S. auto-rental agency, pleaded guilty in federal court to overcharging customers and their insurance companies for repairs to cars that the motorists had damaged in collisions. The company agreed to pay a fine of $6.9 million and to make full restitution to some 100,000 victims...
Just a fraction of a second before Discovery's three main engines were to ignite for a critical 20-second test firing last week, a computer detected a problem with a valve that regulates flow in cooling lines; the computer aborted the test. That was the fifth postponement of the...
Awards for black victims in civil suits are a third or sometimes even half the amount of those given to white plaintiffs. A 1985 Rand Corp. study of 9,000 civil cases in Cook County, Ill., from 1959 to 1979 found that the median award to a white in a...
In 1960, Gov. Thornburgh's first wife was killed and his son Peter was left mentally handicapped in an automobile accident. She married Richard in 1963 and has been involved in issues affecting people with disabilities.