In a nation of especially demanding consumers, Mitsubishi has been plagued by quality problems and dozens of recalls since 1999, and it has been punished by the government for concealing defects dating back decades.
Since the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was enacted in 1966, the industry has blocked any meaningful provision for criminal penalties that would make company executives who concealed defects or decided not to recall dangerous vehicles subject to prison sentences.
Yet we just saw GM receive an out-of-court deal for concealing defects that cost over a hundred people their lives -- and no charges for any employees.
The report explains how since the 1960s, design defect litigation has enforced safety standards, revealed previously concealed defects and regulatory weaknesses, and deterred manufacturers from cutting corners on safety for the goal of greater profits.
It prevents correction of any error in that respect and profits only the witness who seeks a concealed defect to exploit.' United States v. Bryan, supra, 339 U.S. at 344, 70 S.Ct. at 737 (concurring opinion).
Paradoxically, Kenneth et al. showed that the mice originated by targeting c-IAP1 in a 129-derived ES cell line contained an added layer of complexity if used to investigate the roles of c-IAP1 in innate immunity and programmed cell death because of a concealed defect in the caspase-11 gene.
The findings described above suggest that the mice created by targeting c-IAP1 in a 129-derived ES cell line [ 12] contain an added layer of complexity if used to investigate roles of c-IAP1 in innate immunity and programmed cell death, because of a concealed defect in the caspase 11 gene.
Similar to the iPSCs derived from the fibroblasts of HGPS and WS patients, HGPS- and WS-ESCs did not show any premature aging defects, indicating that pluripotent stem cells are able to conceal aging defects caused by LMNA mutation or WRN deficiency (Liu et al., 2012; Zhang et al., 2013).
Ms. Moller Kareman tries to conceal stylistic defects, which is the play's most damaging flaw, by highlighting content as if it were beyond cliché.
