Government may mandate ‘brake-override’ systems; Toyota announces sales drop
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 3rd, 2010 5:38 am by HL
Government may mandate ‘brake-override’ systems; Toyota announces sales drop
The federal government may recommend that automakers include “brake-override” systems in all new vehicles to avert the sort of runaway acceleration that has been reported in several popular Toyota models and linked to a growing number of fatal accidents.
White House declassifies outline of cybersecurity program
SAN FRANCISCO — The Obama administration Tuesday declassified an outline of a major government effort to protect its computer networks.
Days later, as a deal emerges, Bunning backs down
For five days, retiring Sen. Jim Bunning held his fellow Republicans hostage. He stood his ground, angry and alone, a one-man blockade against unemployment benefits, Medicare payments to doctors, satellite TV to rural Americans and paychecks to highway workers.
Obama administration plans to close International Labor Comparisons office
Like a scorekeeper for the world, a tiny unit within the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks globalization’s winners and losers, and the results are not always pretty for the United States. Manufacturing jobs here, for example, have fallen faster since 1979 than in Canada, Germany or Japan. Compensation for those jobs dropped here in 2008 but jumped in South Korea and Australia.
