Word: failed
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...York City suit against 60 gunmakers and gun sellers, survivors of victims of gun violence are charging gun companies with distributing weapons in a way calculated to evade gun-control laws. Two California cases are going after the gun industry for making cop-killer bullets and guns that fail to indicate they're loaded when they have a round in the chamber but an empty clip. The families of two people killed in the Jonesboro, Ark., school massacre are preparing a lawsuit against a gunmaker for not including a trigger lock. And the mayors of Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities...
...companies. Victims of guns that misfire because of a mechanical defect have won some cases, and stores have been held liable for selling guns under wildly unreasonable circumstances. But suits blaming the gun industry when its products are used in crimes or by careless third parties almost always fail. Just this spring a jury cleared a Tennessee company that sold a mail-order MAC-11 assault-pistol kit, the so-called MAC in a sack, used in a sniper killing on the Brooklyn Bridge...
Even the pros sometimes fail to do all their homework. Last Monday I bought stock in Steelcase, the largest maker of office furniture in the U.S., only to discover afterward that it had been decked by its Canadian business. Huh? What Canadian business...
...Clinton administration isn't doing enough to stamp out cyber-smut, Holder reminded prosecutors that no web site is too insignificant. "Prosecution of cases involving relatively small distributors can have a deterrent effect and would dispel any notion that obscenity distributors are insulated from prosecution if their operations fail to exceed a predetermined size," Holder wrote...
...Tokyo struggle to comprehend what action is necessary and what "action" even means in the latest crisis, perhaps we should examine our own cultural awareness as we prepare to embark into the ever-shrinking global village. While Gaps are opening up all around the world, let us not fail to mind the gaps in cultural education that extend beyond sushi and the french...