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Related to the steering and recalls. the steering rod and real relaye in important. in 2005, toyota issued a recall, a million vehicles, forerunners and other vehicles. but the september of 2005 date they wanted to fix steering rods. in october of 2004, in japan, the very same recall was issued. and the law in the united states says you have to notify authorities within five days if theres a safety problem yet the recalls in japan and united states were 11 months apart. toyota says the problems ...

>> we acknowledge we had very serious in 2005 and 2006. >> im not talking about 2005 and 2006. im citing from an osha study between june of 2007 on your watch and february of 2010 where osha said bp has a systemic safety problem. and of those 760 that were classified as egregious and willful, its important to note that is the worst violation that osha can identify. and their definition is a violation committed with plain indifference to or intention disregard for employee safety and health. 97% ...

Between june of 2007 on your watch and february of 2010 where osha said bp has a systemic safety problem. of those 760 that were classified as egregious and willful. its important to note that is the worst violation osha can identify its a violation with intentional disregard for employee safety and health. 97% of all of those egregious violations a u.s. refineries on your watch were against your company. that doesnt sounds like a company that to use your words is committed to safe, reliable ope...

And 2006. im citing from an osha study between june of 2007 on your watch, and february of 2010 where osha said bp has a systemic safety problem. and of those 760 that classified as egregious and willful, its important to note that that is the worst violation that osha can identify, and their definition is a violation committed with plain indifference to or intentional disregard for employee safety and health. 97% of all of these egee outside violations at refineries on your watch are against di...

Technologies and procedures the industry should be using and some of those decisions can have consequences on the industrys willingness to invest. >> greta: not a brill -- brill want way to set something up. they may have to look the other way on some safety considerations. any indication where there have been recommendations in terms of safety ideas for these rigs and they have not been pursued or followed through? >> we have found a you number of instances where the agency flagged a potential ...

Technologies and procedures the industry should be using and some of those decisions can have consequences on the industrys willingness to invest. >> greta: not a brill -- brill want way to set something up. they may have to look the other way on some safety considerations. any indication where there have been recommendations in terms of safety ideas for these rigs and they have not been pursued or followed through? >> we have found a you number of instances where the agency flagged a potential ...

Over-the-counter drugs for our children, and theres a safety problem. heres what nielsen told me this should be. >> i think its a very large wake-up call for over-the-counter drug industry. its well-known that for the prescription drug industry 80% of the ingredients are imported. fda does very little foreign inspection work on over-the-counter drug suppliers of ingredients active and inactive. and this is a wake-up call, very similar to melamine, to the food safety issue, and heparin to the pre...

They have tried and tried and it hasnt worked. obviously, we have got a serious safety problem. >> certainly, they tried to close that blowout valve. things have changed so much, senator, over the last few days, from what we initially heard following the sinking of that drilling rig. we had initially heard from the coast guard. doesnt look like there is any oil leaking from the wellhead. things seem to be pretty good. was that premature? >> it may be but i dont know how to assess blame. i know t...

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Average. last year, 80,000 manufacturing jobs disappeared in michigan. there is encouraging news from the automotive world. a white house report says 45,000 auto industry jobs have been created since gm emerged from bankruptcy. the fallout from toyotas safety problem appears to have given americans a renewed confidence in u.s. cars. 46% of americans said asian cars were superior to american cars. now, american cars are preferred by a 38-33% margin. economists at the university of michigan say th...