When you add to these burdens the extremely significant factor of personal liability in an age of corporate crisis, a disinterested observer might well wonder why anyone would want the job in the first place, even at higher compensation levels.

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Starting in the mid-1960s courts increasingly held manufacturers liable for injuries their products caused, even when user ineptitude was a contributing factor, under the theory that liability would spur the manufacturer to come up with safer designs.

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