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...Ford, the bill would require any company with more than 11 employees to set up a worker-management safety committee empowered to enforce jobsite safety rules. "Then there's no reason for an inspector to show up to unlock a door," says Franklin Mirer, safety director for the United Auto Workers. "The workers...
...shows the police have a sense of humor," says Melissa Weisenberger, a shop assistant on State Street. Somebody else has a sense of humor too. The organizers of a local auto show have asked Santa Barbara officers to be the judges of the Car Most Likely to Be Pulled Over by the Police contest. Blue Persuasion is not in the running...
Luckily for Hall, Coleman missed the antics. The kid and the cop are buddies, but Mike is also an auto thief who was sentenced to an indeterminate period of probation last year after he and a friend hot-wired an Olds Cutlass and led police on a mile-long chase. For 10 months Mike rode long hours in the cruiser with Coleman as part of an experiment to reform young delinquents. The theory behind the program is that cops can be strong role models for the youths, who get to view crime from the victims' perspective, a shock that courts...
...Youth Intervention Program was launched by the police department to combat a wave of auto thefts in Tulsa, where 7,599 vehicles were stolen in 1990 alone, many by juveniles. By limiting the plan largely to 12- to 14-year- olds, officials hope to reach kids they can still straighten out. The youths and their parents sign contracts with the county juvenile bureau, committing the offenders to patrol shifts. In 14 months, six youths have made it through an average of 150 hours of patrols to complete their probation, and one of them has gone on to enroll...
...Retired auto executives say the darnedest things. In his forthcoming book, A Better Idea, former Ford chief DONALD PETERSEN writes that his company's quality improvements during the '80s failed to put the automaker ahead of the Japanese. "Right now, I rate Toyota the best, followed by Honda, and Mazda does a great...