Word: cancelations
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...were distributed, which fans were told to wear around their mouths. "When you wear them all day, the [bandannas] get all wet with saliva and sweat, becoming useless," said Lo Wing-lok, president of the Hong Kong Medical Association. Hong Kong officials apparently felt they could not afford to cancel a popular event that would boost a tourism industry in free fall: since the disease hit, city restaurants have seen a 15% drop in dinner business, and travel bookings for Easter are down 30%. Rugby boosted the numbers, at least for a weekend. It will take up to a week...
...weekend scare headlines in USA Today, you may have fretted that the Academy Awards might cancel itself because of the U.S.-Brit invasion of Iraq. You needn't have. Eighty-six the Oscars? Not with half of haut Hollywood - the elite Democratic Guard - ready to make an antiwar speech, and the rest of Tinseltown ready to extend a hand and congratulate itself with the whole world watching. The film community was ready to give hundreds of millions of viewers a break from all-war-all-the-time TV, and a few winning films the chance to splash a statuette...
...decisions to cancel plans have not been easy ones, students said...
This fall, just days before Paulin was originally slated to give the lecture, word of his allegedly anti-Israel comments to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram provoked a firestorm of campus controversy and caused English professors to cancel his invitation...
...those who were forced to cancel classes said they would still be able to stay on schedule...