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To: TobagoJack who wrote (22864)	9/21/2007 12:37:44 PM
From: stan_hughes	Respond to of 217557

Mattel says "Forgive me, Master" abcnews.go.com Mattel Apologizes to China for Product Recalls Reuters BEIJING BEIJING - A senior Mattel executive apologized to China on Friday for recent recalls of Chinese-made toys and said it took full responsibility. Mattel, the world's largest toy maker, has come under scrutiny following the recall of about 21 million of its Chinese-made toys in a span of five weeks, many because of excessive levels of lead paint. "Our reputation has been damaged lately by these recalls," Thomas Debrowski, Mattel's executive vice president of worldwide operations, told China's quality watchdog chief, Li Changjiang. "Mattel takes full responsibility for these recalls and apologizes personally to you, the Chinese people and all of our customers who received the toys." He said he realized the damage that had been done to the reputation of Chinese goods. "But it's important for everyone to understand that the vast majority of those products that we recalled were the result of a design flaw in Mattel's design, not through a manufacturing flaw in Chinese manufacturers." Before the Mattel recalls, a spate of incidents involving unsafe Chinese products ranging from toys and seafood to toothpaste that entered both EU and U.S. markets prompted calls on both sides of the Atlantic for a ban on products "made in China." Mattel CEO Robert Eckert this week defended his company's toy safety record as two skeptical Democratic lawmakers accused him of stonewalling a congressional probe into production practices in China linked to millions of recalled toys. Eckert told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that his company was aggressively testing toys to make sure they were safe, and said employees will make more surprise inspections of factories. Copyright 2007 Reuters News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Copyright © 2007 ABC News Internet Ventures

To: TobagoJack who wrote (22864)	9/21/2007 7:52:04 PM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217557

this has nothing at all to do with the juggernaut and all to do with the idiot fools demanding all manner of choo-choo without particular attention to how it was assembled, how it was designed and how people got the raw materials in the first place.... Yet,,, and cb ilaine would say the chinese are turning this into a political incident???? ughh...

To: TobagoJack who wrote (22864)	9/22/2007 2:58:34 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217557

Spendthrifts are better off having somebody else tell them what to do, so the end result is a good result: <the incoming sovereign, just as all spendthrifts must eventually do, beyond the dark interregnum > Those who apply Mq's "Five Financial Factors For Freedom" [TM] wisely, namely "Learn, Work, Save, Invest and Spend", [TM], using Virtuous Values [TM] as their standard of weights and measures, will have a good, happy and successful life, and die content. The others must gain their quota of happiness under the aegis of those more suited to the task of caring lovingly for money, which wants desperately to be loved, not abused. Mqurice