Word: cancelation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vital that every aid project have a specific objective, and that we see progress toward that objective or abandon the program. The objective must be reasonable, obtainable and in keeping with our resources. More funds should not be granted until past authorizations are spent, or better still, Congress should cancel all past authorizations and re-examine aid to regain control over distributions...
...Sebastião Paes de Almeida, 53, a multimillionaire industrialist-turned-politician, thrown out of the gubernatorial race for "abuse of economic power"-his legendary largesse at election time has earned him the nickname "Tião," after a famed Brazilian train robber. The state electoral court refused to cancel Paes de Almeida's candidacy. "If that section of the law does not apply to him," grumbled one Castello Branco aide, "we might as well...
...raid, reports Schlesinger, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, backed by McGeorge Bundy, convinced the President that the D-day morning raid "would put the U.S. in an untenable position." Everyone, says Sorensen, would have regarded it as "an overt, unprovoked attack by the U.S. on a tiny neighbor." Kennedy canceled the second strike; he changed his mind later, but after the strike was reinstated, it was rendered useless by bad weather. Sorensen carefully points out that Kennedy did not-as is often maintained-"cancel U.S. air cover" for the landing, for the simple reason that such U.S. air cover...
...expands, it turns the hollow cylinder that surrounds it. Compression and release of the spring occur, alternately, 1,800 times a second. The turning force of the cylindrical mass is what turns the operating end of the wrench. The rapid rotation and counterrotation of cylinder and motor all but cancel each other out and absorb about 96% of the reaction. This is more than enough to enable an astronaut to turn a nut without being turned himself...
Last week the industry was tied up in the fourth week of a strike by three of the industry's eleven unions. Though one of the unions came to terms at week's end, some 70 vessels remained idle, and five passenger ships were forced to cancel lucrative summer sailings. The gut issue is the demand for higher wages and pensions-to offset the effects of automation of the kind that Johnson and Skouras propose...