Word: defection
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...lawyers involved in similar legal battles. Though other attorneys, notably Bruce Kaster of Ocala, Fla., and Tab Turner of Little Rock, Ark., had been suing Firestone over the same issue for much of the decade, it was Roberts who got the first indication of the scope of the potential defect. According to him, there had been more than 1,100 incident reports and 57 lawsuits by February of this year. It took a while to grab all the spoils - Firestone incurred a fine of roughly $9,000 before handing over the testimony of some of its managers on June...
...well as in Colombia and Ecuador, as far back as the fall of 1998, a year and a half before the company started replacing them on some 30,000 vehicles in the region. It blamed Firestone's misleading diagnosis of the problem for the delay in finding the defect. Firestone says it simply mislabeled some tires as having an extra, protective nylon strip (see box) but built them according to Ford's specifications. On Thursday the Venezuelan consumer-protection agency recommended bringing criminal charges against both companies for a cover-up that the agency says has led to 46 deaths...
...sacrificed for quantity. Inspections, they charged, lasted as little as 10 seconds; solvent was rubbed on outdated and dried-out rubber to make it sticky. Firestone insists that quality control at all its plants is rigorous. Union officials, worried about their members being made scapegoats for a design defect, have defended their work and forged an unusual alliance with management on this point...
...Humans, working with the genome roadmap, evolve themselves - correcting nature's blunders, fixing a defect of vision here, a tendency toward diabetes there, until in the fullness of time a perfected human specimen walks the earth, while, simultaneously, 2) The robots, in their parallel universe, labor at their own evolution, building their own brains, refining their subtleties and abilities at the speed of light...
...issue its "final report" on the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800. The plane's fiery demise, in which all 230 aboard were killed, was, it seems, a freak accident - a conclusion that, while comforting in its own way, as it nudges out the possibility of a serious design defect in the 747 model, provides the victims' survivors with little sense of closure...