It's cheaper to pay off the victims than to upgrade the vessels and improve their safety standards".
They greatly improved their safety, stability, mental and physical health, housing, family relationships, life skills and self-esteem.
Landwind has stopped selling while it retools its cars to improve their safety, according to Peter Bijvelds, a Dutch car dealer who holds the distribution license for the brand.
On the other hand, medical liability has improved patient safety — by leading hospitals to hire risk managers, for example, and spurring anesthesiologists to improve their safety standards and practices.
Safety is one area in which there has been continual progress, with military and commercial aviation having vastly improved their safety records by any measure.
The increased sophistication of modern biotechnology has enabled scientists to refine therapeutic and clinical strategies to improve their safety and effectiveness.
Chrysler, however, challenged the agency's conclusion that it should recall the models and modify them to improve their safety in accidents.
The council maintains that a common area for women to work will improve their safety, as well as give them access to health and support networks; it is also popular with residents who do not want prostitution on their doorsteps.
Better weather information will allow controllers to handle more planes, Mr. Peacock said, and to tell pilots of small planes who have no weather radar what lies ahead, improving their safety.
The mayor said four of the so-called impact schools — Lincoln and Lafayette in Brooklyn, John Bowne High School in Queens and Middle School 22 in the Bronx — had sufficiently improved their safety records to be removed from the list.
