Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other side, the Soviets brought up an old complaint about America's ICBMs. Under SALT II, each side will be allowed a maximum of 820 land-based, MiRVed rockets, and the two countries must agree in advance which are to be counted as MIRVs. From time to time the Soviets have hinted darkly that they were having difficulty distinguishing the 450 U.S. single-warhead Minuteman IIs from the 550 MiRVed Minuteman IIIs. For months they were silent on the issue, but they recently brought it up again, probably for bargaining leverage on other issues. What especially irritated...
...investigators continued their post-mortem on the Pennsylvania accident, an advisory panel recommended installation of expensive new monitoring instruments at all 43 of the U.S.'s pressurized-water reactors?the type in use at Three Mile Island. The NRC also heard a complaint from a nuclear analyst for the Tennessee Valley Authority that the reactor's builder, Babcock & Wilcox, had brushed off his warning of a "serious" design problem. Perhaps of greatest immediate import, officials conceded that it may take several more weeks, possibly months, to achieve a "cold shutdown" of the crippled reactor, meaning bringing it down...
Jane R. Morhardt, assistant librarian of Lamont, said yesterday notes in the library's suggestion box indicate students' largest complaint about Lamont is the squeaky floors...
...Extension of the G.I. Bill for those who have not completed high school. The benefits currently expire ten years after a veteran has left the service. One strong complaint among veterans is that the provisions have not been as beneficial as the World War II G.I. Bill...
...Complaint: Speaks of overwork, loss of confidence and inability to get provable results. Hears conflicting inner voices and insists that former friends are laughing behind his back. Patient agrees with Norman Mailer: "It's hard to get to the top in America, but it's even harder to stay there...