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May 22, 1995
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I was pleased to see the coverage given to Michigan State University’s media study (“Buckle Up--It’s the Law, Except in Hollywood,” by Lauren Viera, Feb. 1).
Feb. 22, 1998
Business
* Associates First Capital Corp., the largest independent consumer lender in the U.S., agreed to buy Textron Inc.’
Aug. 12, 1998
World & Nation
The company responsible for an oil slick that workers contained in Galveston Bay has a history of trouble with barges buckling and breaking open.
May 28, 1996
California
An Irvine business has agreed to stop selling belt buckle knives and “cane swords” and to pay $7,500 in costs and civil penalties in the wake of a consumer protection lawsuit filed against it by the Orange County district attorney’s office, prosecutors said Friday.
Aug. 6, 1994
Music
The trade group representing the music industry said it had hired the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to lead its efforts against digital piracy.
Dec. 10, 2003
Federal safety officials said they are investigating nine complaints of fires starting in the air venting system of 1992-94 Explorers, Ford Motor Co.’
Oct. 28, 1998
American Airlines and United Airlines said they will begin requiring passengers to wear seat belts throughout their flights, from takeoff until landing, in an effort to avoid injuries from unexpected turbulence.
March 31, 1998
Water-saturated fill beneath the Del Amo station has caused part of the Metro Blue Line to sink more than an inch since April, buckling the trolley line’s elevated concrete platform and forcing trains to slow to a crawl as they enter.
June 8, 1991
Four months after a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad, SpaceX has determined that the cause was a failed composite overwrapped pressure vessel used to store liquid helium.
Jan. 2, 2017