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Action . Thank you. And i understand your involvement in the establishment of the act more than ten years ago, and i can understand the disappointment you feel by the shortcomings that have been evidenced by our company, and i want to explain to you what happened. The problem that we had with underreporting in the act is a systematic problem that began at the the outset. As you know, it went into effect in 2003. They did not properly Program Computers and set up systems that would at accurately let data flow and feed into treasury reports. It is difficult for me to say, sir, but that setup continued unchecked until 2011, 2012. You are right that an internal honda associate did mention a concern, as well as a discussion with nhtsa. They asked about the omission of certain incidents in our tread report. We did look into that, sir, in early 2012. We did not look at that effectively. We took action to address that one problem, but ....
The life, it creates an immense amount of insecurity among the driving public and obviously my view the burden has to be on the manufacturer and our governmental agencies to take the appropriate steps to revive and restore public confidence. Thank you. Thank you. Now, its the appropriate time to introduce the panel. Ill introduce the panel as a whole, and then well start with takata as the first speaking witness. So today our first panel representing takata, Hiroshi Shimizu. Shimizu, sorry. Yes. From honda, Rick Schostek. From bmw, chris westbrook. From toyota, abbas saadat. Appreciate all of you being here. We will go from right on my left, your right, and start with mr. Shimizu. But before i ask you to start, i want to recognize that youre appearing with a translator, because english is not mr. Shimizus first language, and while the committee will allow mr. Shimizu to confe ....
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In a regular season. how did this happen? they came out and they got the two probably reigning mvps with prescott and elliott on offense. they always have rookies. both rookies. it s going to be interesting who gets rookie of the year. is it good to have america s team good? is it good for football? it depends if you go to new jersey. people like it if the auto league is that marketing gold? obviously, if dallas goes to the super bowl it s great for football, it s great for dallas. you know, i have a prediction who is going to be there. who is in the nfc hunt? you ve got dallas is at 1 and then you ve got atlanta, seattle, green bay green bay and detroit play next week and the giants are in and they can always create havoc when they get in there. washington and tampa have to win. tampa, my husband is from that area. ....