Word: smith
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last Friday, Springfield-based gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson committed to a "code of conduct" for the sales and distribution of handguns as well as a number of new gun safety and design standards to be implemented over the next year. In exchange for these commitments, the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Treasury and state and local government officials agreed to dismiss pending lawsuits against the nation's largest gun manufacturer...
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...
...Smith & Wesson is doing its part to be more socially responsible, now it is the responsibility of the government, gun owners and other gun manufacturers to bite the proverbial bullet and do their part...
There, Nash designed command structures for the U.N. and NATO peacekeeping forces in Kosovo, according to Brian R. Smith '02, who worked with Nash at the NDI last summer...
...definitely knew how he wanted things. He was a man who got things done," Smith said of Nash's leadership skills...