Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been allowed to make only six feature-length films during a 24-year career. Present as Tarkovsky made his emotional announcement were three other famous exiled artists from the Soviet Union: Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, Stage Director Yuri Lyubimov and Writer Vladimir Maximov. All understood Tarkovsky's bitter complaint: "I cannot help but ask why they persecute...
...Brock last week took a small step for a Government official but a giant one in the matter of commercial disputes. After nearly two months of deliberation, Brock agreed to investigate the first formal charge of unfair competition in space. "This," said one staff member, "is not a frivolous complaint...
Though Brock's office has a year to investigate the complaint, it is likely to rule much sooner. Transpace needs to win three new contracts quickly in order to retain its access to NASA's Delta launch missile. Without the use of the powerful Delta, Transpace would be grounded...
...this bounty and the bay itself are now threatened. Watermen have been saying for years that the Chesapeake is dying. Now others are confirming their complaint. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, after making a $28 million six-year study, concluded in 1983 that the Chesapeake is clearly an ecosystem in decline. Says Maryland Governor Harry Hughes: "Time is running out for the Chesapeake. If we do not take action to save the bay, there may be no point in taking it tomorrow; it may be too late...
...COMMON complaint, particularly in hard-core auto magaziens, is that bicyclists should be kept off the roads because they don't pay road-use taxes the way cars do at the gas pump or trucks do directly. The argument may sound good, but it doesn't hold water No bicycle ever eroded a road shoulder or made a pothole like an overweighted truck. Bicycling is a cheap clean alternative to driving and should be encouraged if for none other than utilitarian reasons. When possible, cities should build bike paths like those along the Charles River. But in cramped cities where...