Mr Weld planned to follow his Boston press conference by sniping at Mr Helms from the airwaves and from the op-ed page of the New York Times.
The dangers come down to basics, engineers said: the lack of body reinforcements, lower-quality steel in car bodies, weaker or fewer weld spots to hold the vehicles together and car platforms designed decades before modern safety advances.
White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry says President Bill Clinton still supports Weld for the Mexican post, but is mindful that Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jesse Helms is opposed to Weld's nomination.
But Mr Weld cannot aspire to any higher elected office than governor of Massachusetts.
Yet Mr Stepaniak says he is not allowed to use federal training money to teach people how to weld.
Lasers, however, can be aimed to weld a join from a distance.
Tom Dixon, 46, who taught himself how to weld metal furniture after quitting art school, was selected for his new furniture and lighting designs.
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However, adding scandium to the alloys both makes they themselves stronger and also makes them easier to weld and such welds, when they are done, stronger.
Although it had always been in the background, he "decided it was time for art" in 1965, and attended a local college in Greenock to learn how to weld.
Rationalisation is a popular strategy at the moment: in addition to merging the various inspection bodies, the government has plans to weld the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise into a single entity.
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According to Leeds Weld, the firm that bought Ross University, a broker representing Ross called, looking for investment capital.
In 1995 Mr Weld urged his fellow governors to support Mr Clinton's economic aid to Mexico.
Eager to emerge from Mr Weld's shadow, he fought hard for a bill he could tout as his own.
And on July 28th Mr Weld resigned as governor in order to dedicate himself full-time to fighting Mr Helms, leaving Massachusetts to Paul Cellucci, his loyal lieutenant-governor.
While the paint shop is as modern as any U.S. factory's, workers wearing respirators (but no eye protection) still use small paintbrushes, rather than automated tools, to slather sealant on critical weld spots.
Messrs Lott and Helms are trying to paint the fight with Mr Weld as a single-issue matter.
Sunnily extolling the virtues of free trade, Mr Weld has led a dozen Massachusetts trade missions to places like Japan, Israel, Ireland and China.
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In his unsuccessful 1996 race for the Senate, Mr Weld dodged when asked if he would vote to keep Mr Helms as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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She was also able to identify then Massachusetts Gov. William Weld from anonymous hospital discharge records.
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"The secret of a car's body being able to withstand the crash test are the weld spots, " he said.
Mr Weld, a capable and amiable Republican, seemed to be in with a good chance when President Clinton named him.
Another mission was to Mexico, and in 1995 Mr Weld publicly called for support of Mr Clinton's Mexican aid package.
"While safe access to the beaches is still possible it is unlikely to be as convenient as before, " said James Weld from the estate.
Mr Weld's Senate confirmation may not come until September or later, so Mr Cellucci has from then until November 1998 to convince voters he is worth voting for without Mr Weld.
The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court, used to be steadily against the death penalty, but three new Weld appointees may tilt it the other way.
As for Mr Weld himself, he rashly resigned on July 28th, in the heat of an effort to become President Clinton's ambassador to Mexico.
He was referring to 1971's "A Safe Place, " starring Jack Nicholson, Tuesday Weld and Orson Welles.
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