Word: nickel
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...Amanda Ripley. Reported by Karen Nickel Anhalt/Meggen, Helena Bachmann/Geneva, Peter Mikelbank/Paris and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...then there are the nickel-and-dime problems that many in the Pentagon say shouldn't be cropping up in a planned $38 billion program on the verge of production by Bell Helicopter and the Boeing Co. The doors on each $83 million craft are difficult to open, the interiors lack hand grips so that passengers can safely move about the cabin in flight, and the heating and cooling systems can't maintain comfortable cabin temperatures. In the hot confines of the cabin, Pentagon testers noted, Marines will have to drink a lot of water to be ready to fight...
...then there are the nickel-and-dime problems that many in the Pentagon say shouldn't be cropping up in a planned $38 billion program on the verge of production by Bell Helicopter and the Boeing Co. The doors on each $83 million craft are difficult to open, the interiors lack hand grips so that passengers can safely move about the cabin in flight, and the heating and cooling systems can't maintain comfortable cabin temperatures. In the hot confines of the cabin, Pentagon testers noted, Marines will have to drink a lot of water to be ready to fight...
Brown spokesperson Nickel said he hopes the EPA report will not mar Brown's longstanding reputation as an environmentally conscientious school...
...have a reputation for awareness," Nickel said. "We do have a good record...and the speed with which we have reacted should help that...