Word: cancelations
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...your husband/boyfriend's condom breaks. Or your diaphragm gets dislodged. You spend the rest of the night in a state of panic; you know, somehow, that you're going to get pregnant, and you're not ready, financially or psychologically, to have a baby. So the next day you cancel your meetings and head to your doctor's office, where you wait hours for a cursory appointment - after which you're handed a prescription for the morning-after pill. At the local drugstore, the sole pharmacist on duty informs you that he is morally opposed to filling your prescription...
...Turkish government has responded to the National Assembly's decision by threatening to cancel lucrative defence and telecommunications contracts with French firms. In Britain, the Armenian diaspora has accused the British government of placing politics above principle when it failed to give a more central place to Armenian suffering in the newly-declared Holocaust commemoration, held last week...
Random House, the largest publisher in America, had enough reservations about printing Kamen's book that along with its $300,000 signing offer, the publishing house insisted upon an escape clause that would allow them to cancel the deal if they were dissappointed with the invention. Kamen declined the offer...
...Chief "to challenge the status quo inside the Pentagon." Rumsfeld will almost certainly be backed by Dick Cheney, his protege and the new Vice President. Cheney shocked the Pentagon during his tenure there a decade ago when he killed the Navy's pet A-12 jet and tried to cancel the Marines' V-22 tilt-rotor, the troubled $40 billion project that was saved only by its congressional backers. The Crusader's fate will show just how vigorously Rumsfeld is willing to shake up the Pentagon's cold war mind-set or whether he will yield to the pressure...
...substantially increasing funding to cancel the education debts of graduates who enter public service--including teaching, social work, child care and law enforcement...