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Subject: Re: Massachusetts seat belt law
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> ***** ada-uts:net.politics / gcc-milo!john /  9:43 am  Dec 16, 1985
> Not quite.  It seems that Empress Dole (Sec. of Transportation) has decreed
> that airbags will be mandatory (gag) unless n% (n > 50, i think) of the states
> pass mandatory seat belt laws. ...
> John Allred

   And auto manufacturers spent a great deal of money trying to ensure
that the law gets passed.
They also spent money on commercials urging people to wear seat belts.
I'd rather they confined themselves to the latter.

Alex Zatsman.