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These recent commitments come in the wake of a series of workplace shootings and last February's fatal shooting of a first-grader by a six-year-old classmate. Even though Smith & Wesson most likely made these commitments to avoid a drawn-out and expensive litigation process, we applaud the company's courage and leadership in raising the expectations for gun producer responsibility for their guns after production. We hope the other gun manufacturers implicated by the government's lawsuit will follow the lead of Smith & Wesson...
...will practice the virtues, and avoid the snares, of the scholar. You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors," the document reads...
...Weintraub said the carrier will do what everything it can to avoid "random chaos...
...Atal Behari Vajpayee and President Clinton held talks in New Delhi and pretty much agreed to disagree on matters nuclear, even as they vowed to strengthen their relationship and hold regular summits. Vajpayee reiterated India's policy of maintaining a "minimum nuclear deterrent" but vowed that New Delhi would avoid further bomb testing - although he has no plans to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, just yet - and would not be the first to use nuclear weapons in any conflict. But containing rather than reversing the South Asian arms race may have been about the best President Clinton could hope...
...find the story of the decline of Lloyd's of London tragic and deeply disturbing [BUSINESS, Feb. 28]. The attempts by Lloyd's insiders to avoid and dilute their liabilities are abhorrent and completely at odds with the law. But what of the conflict between an ancient establishment rooted in honor and unlimited liability and a modern litigious society, seeking to avoid individual responsibility at all costs? Is there equity in hounding the Names to suicide or their last penny when the companies that initially profited from asbestos have already escaped behind the cloak of limited liability? At the beginning...