Bent on living a dream, Linus Hall quit his engineering job at Bridgestone Firestone in 2001.

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There's been no talk of a strike, and it wasn't clear whether the union would use the talks as a pattern to set the stage for negotiations during the summer with tire makers Bridgestone-Firestone and Michelin-BFGoodrich.

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There was talk that Bridgestone , its Tokyo-based owner, would pull the plug on Firestone, since the parent company was pushing its higher-end, higher-margin Bridgestone-brand business before the tragedies.

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The Bridgestone tournament will be held in August at Firestone Country Club.

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And outgoing Bridgestone president Yoichiro Kaizaki said he was heartened that Firestone was still maintaining a 20% share of the overall US tyre market.

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Mr Nasser was up in front of the congressmen with Masatoshi Ono, the boss of Firestone in America (Firestone is part of Japan's Bridgestone Corporation).

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An investor would've been better off buying Bridgestone stock the day before the first story connecting its Firestone tires to rollover accidents.

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