The Common Problems of Consumers

Automaker Ford Motor Co said last week it would roll out a software patch for consumers to address similar problems with braking on two of its hybrid models, without filing a recall. Nissan Motor Co, Japan's No.3 carmaker, said Toyota's woes had led it to focus more on winning customers' trust, as it posted a return to profit in the third quarter. Shares in Toyota, which lost about a fifth of their value since late January, closed up 2.9 percent, while the Nikkei average dipped 0.2 percent.” The shares fell while Toyota appeared not to be doing anything to deal with its problems," said Hiroaki Osakabe, a fund manager at Chibagin Asset Management.

But illegal drug use has risen steadily over the past decade and a fifth of the prison population is there for drug offences. What’s more, drug policy campaigners say, a lack of focus on harm-reduction strategies, which involve needle-exchange programmers for intravenous drug users, has fed the spread of HIV and other diseases, compounding the failure of the drugs war.” The war on drugs has failed, but they're going to commit themselves to it again," said Genevieve Horwood, a British barrister and member of the International Drug Policy Consortium, which pushes for new drug policies.” Even though there are member states who disagree with the declaration, it will be signed because there's no other strategy they can all agree on." The Vienna declaration is being drafted under the auspices of the U.N. law enforcement relies on informants who infiltrate extremist groups that otherwise would be incapable of mounting an attack.