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Search results for "Century Products" ...
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It' No Accident: How Corporations Sell Dangerous Baby Products
Felcher reveals case after case of babies and toddlers being injured or killed by cribs, cradles, carriers, car seats, strollers and other products supposedly designed to be safe. The author, a former marketing lecturer, examines the hideous tricks that big businesses use to hide from the public the risks that their products pose to children. The book depicts how the lack of enough regulatory power over baby products has given faulty companies the leeway to settle wrongful death lawsuits outside courts and to push grieving parents to accept gag orders.
Tags: BOOK; FOIA; safety; children; Juvenile Product Manufacturers Association; lawyers; litigation; Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); Consumer Product Safety Act; recalls; advertising; Graco; Hasbro; Century Products
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Rebuilding America
The Columbia Daily Tribune investigates what has gone wrong in America in the last century and why wages are down, creating a society of have-mores and have-lesses. The article focuses on some starting points for fixing the American economy, including how to deal with trade, immigration, global wages, taxes, Social Security and Medicare, executive salaries, and campaign finance and lobbying.