Word: complaints
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...adults are enthralled by Nickelodeon. Double Dare and another game show called Finders Keepers (now off the air) have been denounced for encouraging exhibitionism and greed -- the sort of schoolmarmish complaint that deserves a dousing with green slime. Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, praises the channel as a healthy alternative to network fare but is worried that some of its newer shows "may have gone a little overboard taking a Mad magazine approach...
Cambridge's Police Review Board is investigating three new cases, including a complaint from a man who says he was unjustly arrested during the Head of the Charles regatta...
According to the board's executive director, William Golon, one of the new cases involves Boston resident Edward Gray's complaint that a Cambridge officer arrested him unjustly for disorderly conduct during the October 23 regatta...
...Postal Service is at odds with the Washington Mint. Not the U.S. Mint but a small Connecticut company that makes a 3 1/2-in. medallion called the Giant Silver Eagle. The Postal Service is charging in a complaint to an administrative judge that the Washington Mint's advertising falsely implies that the company has an affiliation with the U.S. Government. The 12-oz. Connecticut Eagle, which is based on the Federal Government's popular 1-oz. American Eagle coin, sells...
Free trade will hardly mean the end of all Canada-U.S. commercial disputes. Naturally enough, in a dense and complex trading relationship, some issues are almost always simmering. Among the most sensitive is a long-standing U.S. complaint that Canada illegally protects West Coast fish processors. And by Dec. 6, the Reagan Administration must rule on the continuation of a punitive 35% tariff on imports of Canadian cedar shakes and shingles...