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...highway agency has lost 30% of ts employees and sustained a 25% budget cut under Reagan. For two years, NHTSA did little about repeated complaints that the brakes on more than 1 million X-cars made by General Motors tended to lock, especially on wet roads, resulting in the deaths of at least 15 people in skidding accidents. But now NHTSA has suddenly reversed course. It ordered the recall of 240,000 X-cars last spring, and this month it filed a lawsuit against GM demanding the recall of 1.1 million 1980 X-cars and charging that GM had lied...
...consultants advise clients that the surest way to protect their information is to put their computers under lock and key. But as networks of computers connected by phone lines grow, that kind of isolation becomes irrelevant. More elaborate precautions like passwords, dedicated telephone lines and voice analyzers offer some degree of security. Encryption, which scrambles messages, is perhaps the best way to protect data sent over the wires. It is expensive (up to $5,000 per terminal) and difficult to use. Nonetheless, for those willing to pay the price, the technology for protection exists...
...dispute over X-car brakes began in November 1979, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation after complaints that when the brakes were applied even moderately, the rear wheels tended to lock and throw the car into a skid. After much prodding, GM announced a recall of 47,371 X-cars some 20 months later. But it did not repair the brake defect successfully. Last January N.H.T.S.A. declared that about 320,000 of the cars were unsafe. In February 1983, GM ordered a second recall of 240,000 cars. N.H.T.S.A. still considered the action inadequate. The Government...
...primary or caucus to gain any delegates, will make it tough for Jackson to win more than 150 to 200 of the Democratic Convention's nearly 4,000 delegates. That fact seems unlikely to influence Jackson or his supporters. "If he could win a few primaries and lock up a couple of hundred delegates," says George E. Johnson, president of Chicago-based Johnson Products Co., Inc., "we [blacks] could go into the convention with some power...
...Tony Visconti, who lived outside London with David and Angie, life was like a lysergic version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. "Thursday night was gay night. David would go to a gay club, Angie to a lesbian club, and they would both bring home people they found. We had to lock our bedroom door because in the middle of the night these people they brought back home with them would come climbing into new beds, looking for fresh blood...