When companies break the law or produce a defective product, they should, and are, held accountable.
Another technique that's gaining adherents is something called an installment sale to a defective trust.
"Gasoline containing MTBE is not a defective product, " argues Andrew Langan, a lawyer working for BP.
But in cystic fibrosis, a defective gene causes the secretions to become thick and sticky.
But a defective ATM gene can interfere with p53 thereby allowing potentially cancerous cells to multiply.
The cars pursued him with flashing blue lights after officers spotted a defective rear light.
Rather than own up to it, our customer insisted that we had sold him a defective tube.
Men have one X and one Y, so a defective gene on the X shows itself readily.
Indeed, I know a family whose newborn daughter had a defective heart and had to have a heart transplant.
And retailers can no longer be held liable for a defective product unless the retailer was actually responsible for it.
It was as if Obama presumed that everyone watching already knew the stuff Romney was selling was a defective product.
Asian people tend to have a high level of "good" cholesterol because they carry a defective version of this protein.
In August, a Fisker Karma vehicle caught fire in a parking lot in California, thanks to a defective cooling fan.
The game has a few high points but also has more disappointments than a bad motivator on a defective R2 unit.
To do so Summy had to designate the additive a defective product.
Maybe it's a defective type of personality, but for people who like raising the bar, ultrarunning is a good way to do that.
One of them targets a defective gene on the seventh chromosome, present in roughly 7% of all cancers, including most cases of melanoma.
The plaintiff, Rene Green, brought this products liability lawsuit, asserting that a defective gas can manufactured by Blitz caused the death of her husband.
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In July 2010, another female customer of DecorMyEyes.com (a resident of Manhattan), attempted to return a defective and likely counterfeit pair of glasses.
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Toyota, which is recalling 1.73 million cars, said the vehicles had a defective part which "could cause the airbag inflator to rupture and deploy the airbag abnormally in a crash".
Toyota had built into its process a mechanism to verify immediately that each step had been done correctly so that no time or money would be wasted fixing a defective product.
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The problem that most consumers have when it comes to having issues with a defective product, is they forget that Stores like Best Buy only sell the product not produce it.
Also, there can be an installment sale (when the value of the asset is low) to a defective grantor trust that is a completed transfer but not taxed for income tax purposes.
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Consumers no longer trust Toyotas because a defective gas pedal, or possibly a malfunctioning electronic throttle control system, or maybe a poorly secured floor mat, can cause them to surge out of control.
"If you go to the likes of Dr. Zavos, he will give you a dead baby, a defective baby or a deformed baby, " said Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
My own view is that we should never accept at face value the excuse heard all too often from U.S. negotiators that a defective agreement must be accepted because it was the best we could hope to get.
The idea of treating disease by replacing a defective gene with a working copy gained credence in 1990 with the success of the world's first gene therapy clinical tests against a rare condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
These orexin cells were discovered from the study of narcolepsy, a disease in which people cannot stay awake, in the late 1990s by Emmanuel Mignot, a Stanford researcher, who found that dogs with a defective orexin receptor gene developed the condition.
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