Mr. Lampe, in his turn to testify, struggled to explain how a 1996 test of scores of tires at the company's Decatur, Ill., plant, where most of the faulty tires were made, managed to show a substantial number of failures in which treads separated from tires, the failure now blamed for about 100 deaths in cases in which Explorers have rolled over.
As for those bikes (Bale has to mount one of them, which he may have found rather demeaning after riding his nifty Bat-Pod in "The Dark Knight"), they are launched from the shins of a giant Terminator, which treads on a gas station as if trying to squash a roach.
Setting aside the brand name's insinuations, there's also the matter of Unionmade's logo, which treads quite closely to the AFL-CIO's own handshake logos, both of which are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Next up was the album's title track, which treads some of the same harmonic turf but with a more changeable approach to tempo, ratcheting up at a moment's notice.
You've got to read too many footnotes to get what's going on, like, "What is this Taft-Hartley Act, anyway?" Have you seen Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11," which treads into some of the same comical-political territory your book does?
But also an off-the-field model of sports organisation - a model which treads carefully, building relationships, thinking long-term.
However, the product announcements didn't appear to do much for the stock, which treaded water most of the day and finished a bit lower.
Tiraspol's main street, Ulitsa 25 Oktober (a reference to Transnistria's independence day), is a vast, vacant runway, the sidewalks of which barely anyone treads save for a few pensioners.
The 15-foot-high pedestal is entered by a rooftop door that leads to a small staircase, several treads of which are missing.
Like all SUVs, it is prone to deadly rollover crashes, a minority of which have also involved tire tread separation.
