Word: reportable
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...against Ford and Firestone since 1992, including at least 10 complaints about tread separation that the companies have settled. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) had been hearing complaints about the tires since 1991 but didn't act until last May, when the numbers spiked following an investigative report by TV station KHOU in Houston. Says Jon Goldberg, director of crisis management for the Edelman Worldwide p.r. firm: "As the evidence mounted, they [Firestone] could have moved much more quickly to take action...
...fact, bullies are likely to be among the most popular kids in school, admired by peers and teachers alike, according to a report presented last week at a meeting of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.). "These are the kids that other students look up to, the ones everybody wants to hang out with," says Dorothy Espelage, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who co-authored the study. It defines bullying as persistent teasing, name calling or social exclusion; Espelage did not include overt physical acts, since she found they were rare and typically used...
...being chased by incompetent, unprofessional police." The source adds, "We have a 50,000-strong police force. We know that these suspects circulate within a neighborhood a quarter the size of Central Park. And we still can't catch them." Part of the problem, according to the State Department report: Greek laws make it hard to arrest and hold terrorists and offer no safeguards for witnesses and prosecutors...
...would be nice to report that this celebrated comedy is as fresh in the Roundabout Theatre's Broadway revival as it was in 1939, when it opened. Sadly, despite an acidly amusing star turn by Nathan Lane, the story of a curmudgeonly radio commentator forced to spend two weeks with an Ohio family now seems tedious and self-indulgent. There's satiric potential in a middle-American family's encounter with celebrity boorishness, but we get too little feeling for the family and way too much for the hammy show-biz types who troop on and off the stage...
...Russian authorities report that the Kursk represents no nuclear danger to the region - its reactors were shut down, and it wasn't carrying nuclear weapons. But even if it is rescued, that won't make Scandinavia a whole lot safer from the risk of nuclear disaster in the Murmansk region, where a full fifth of the world's nuclear reactors and fuel are concentrated, often aboard decrepit vessels that don't exactly inspire confidence. After all, one came close to meltdown in 1995 when an unpaid bill prompted a utility company to shut down its port electricity supply, disabling...