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That is certainly a focal point of Tab Turner's case. The Little Rock, Ark., lawyer has spent a decade investigating SUV rollovers, and has beaten Ford three times in court. He won a $25 million verdict in 1995 that involved the Bronco II, forerunner of the 1990s Explorers. Over the past eight years, he has taken more than 30 depositions from Ford and Firestone employees on the engineering and development history of the Explorer and the tires that were designed for it. A top Ford official, on videotape, admitted to Turner that Wilderness AT tires were susceptible to failure...
...plant extracts, for example, or looking for chemical compounds that resemble existing drugs. The process is so woefully inefficient that the drugs currently available target only 500 or so different proteins in the body, out of the 30,000 or so we're made of. Says Collins: "We've beaten those targets to death...
...Bears have already beaten Northeastern and Rhode Island, two common opponents who the Crimson failed to overcome. Harvard did manage a win against New Hampshire, who beat Brown in the Bears' season opener...
There are clearly some old-style brakes at work, including rising energy prices, interest rates and debt burdens, all of which take money out of consumers' pockets. But we're also seeing several new wrinkles, like the way the beaten-up NASDAQ appears to be pulling the economy down rather than the other way around. However shallow or deep this downturn proves to be, it is unfolding according to a fresh set of New Economy rules. Among them...
Replace the tech stocks that you shed with a mix of steady growers like food and drug stocks; companies that benefit from falling interest rates like banks, insurers, utilities and real estate investment trusts; and beaten-down cyclical stocks like home builders and retailers, which will rebound with a recovery. Some stocks in these groups have risen sharply in the past year, especially utilities, so pay attention to valuations. Or you can diversify easily through value-oriented mutual funds, like Clipper and Berger Small Cap Value...