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...scandal broke in March, when executives at Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus, until last year a Mitsubishi Motors division, admitted after discussions with government regulators that a defect in wheel hubs on its heavy trucks could result in wheels suddenly coming off the vehicles. (Mitsubishi Fuso had previously maintained the problem was due to poor maintenance.) Later, the truck unit acknowledged it had hidden a problem with fractured clutch housings that could cause a transmission part to fall off vehicles. According to regulators, these two flaws are suspected to have caused or contributed to 73 accidents and two fatalities, including...
...Because in recent months, Mitsubishi's former truck unit admitted to covering up a potentially lethal mechanical defect in its trucks; separately, Mitsubishi Motors launched a massive recall of its cars, including the Pajero, to fix defects that it had kept secret for more than a decade. As the scandal has widened, Japan's fifth largest carmaker has come to be seen as a case study of a self-serving corporation that systematically concealed safety problems to protect its brand. Mitsubishi's reputation has become so tarnished in Japan that industry executives and analysts now openly question its ability...
...resigned from her administrative posts in November 1999 when the scandal was first reported to the government, Gibbons told The Crimson...
...Sneaker Squad” or his position as watch commander of the Harvard Medical School area. He also acted as a bodyguard to several dignitaries, including recently-deceased Loeb University professor emeritus Archibald Cox ’34 while he acted as special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal, Britain’s Prince Charles, members of the Kennedy family and presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush...
...Abuse Scandal Leaked memos suggest the Bush Adminstration has been quietly rewriting the rules against torture...