[0] The Tire Flap: Behind the Feeding Frenzy.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2000 It may take months or years for investigators to discover what caused the accidents in Ford Explorers
The Ford Explorer is a mid-size sport utility vehicle sold in North America and built by the Ford Motor Company since 1990. with Firestone fire·stone n. 1. A flint or pyrite used to strike a fire. 2. A fire-resistant stone, such as certain sandstones. Noun 1. tires, BusinessWeek reports. But that hasn't stopped tort lawyers, consumer advocates, and election-minded lawmakers from spinning the story for their own purposes. If they had not sounded the alarm, trial lawyers argue, the Ford-Firestone affair would never have come to light. That's probably true. But as plaintiffs' attorneys rush to cash in with lawsuits that assert the Explorer-Firestone combination is dangerous, they are also trying to use the scandal to blunt the drive for federal tort reform. Perhaps the most opportunistic opportunistic /op·por·tu·nis·tic/ (op?er-tldbomacn-is´tik) 1. denoting a microorganism which does not ordinarily cause disease but becomes pathogenic under certain circumstances. 2. response to the Ford-Firestone flap The communications protocol used by AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). FLAP runs over TCP/IP and provides the header format for transmitting IM commands and data. It includes the SNAC data type, which is the primary data structure transmitted between clients and servers. See OSCAR. 1. is coming from-surprise-Congress. After ignoring auto safety for years, conservative lawmakers, joined by a few pro-Detroit Democrats, are rushing to the fore. They are blasting NHTSA NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (US government) for failing to spot the problem earlier-and for ignoring warnings from State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. officials about catastrophic accidents. That's ironic, since conservatives have for years been taking the agency to task for being too aggressive. All of this is happening despite the absence of solid analysis, which hardly anyone seems interested in. |
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