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...reason for the calls is no secret. National business groups have blanketed Tacoma television stations with a 30-sec. spot that features depressing images of discouraged workers and a voice-over warning that health care reform will bring billions in new taxes, mandates on businesses and higher health care costs. At the end, Smith's phone number flashes across the screen. "It's a pretty thorough buy," Smith admits, saying it has sometimes run three or four times on a single station in an hour. (See the top 10 health care reform...
January 2008-August 2008: The NHTSA denies the petition of a Toyota Tacoma owner who has asked the agency to investigate the unwanted sudden acceleration he experienced. It finds the possibility of a defect to be "quite limited...
April 2008-January 2009: Another investigation, regarding the Sienna, overlaps with the Tacoma petition review for four months. This one gets bumped up to an engineering analysis, which leads to a recall of Siennas. In the event that the clip securing the floor-carpet cover is missing, the NHTSA report reads, the accelerator pedal can become stuck. It is the same problem that had been noticed and dismissed by Toyota...
...From the Tacoma News Tribune: "A photo caption on Tuesday's Page A8 said a student was performing the Heimlich maneuver on a dummy. The student was actually playing around and pretending to choke the dummy...
Ending a two-day manhunt, a police officer shot and killed Maurice Clemmons, a 37-year-old ex-con suspected of gunning down four other officers in a coffee shop near Tacoma, Wash. Police charged Clemmons' associates with aiding his flight from justice...