Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups with public views much like the AAUP's, the Yale Political Union this week and the Law School Forum here last fall. Like the AAUP, these groups eloquently defended academic freedom, and like the AAUP, they failed to cite a single viable threat to justify their decision to cancel Shockley's debate with Innis anyway...
Kaysen, director of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, said last March that "important business" caused him to cancel his appearance. Kaysen's performance as director of the Institute was evaluated shortly after his abrupt cancellation...
Kaysen, director of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., said at that time that "important business" forced him to cancel the lecture...
...features have been equally important. Air conditioning, which now goes into 73% of all cars, drains off as much as 2.5 m.p.g.; power steering, put into 88% of U.S. autos, can cost another 0.7 m.p.g. The combination of these features and antipollution equipment has been more than enough to cancel any improvements in engine efficiency...
...domestic and overseas lines plan to cancel 950,000 of the 5,000,000 takeoffs originally scheduled for 1974 and reduce flights by 285 million miles. About 275 planes, more than 10% of the airlines' fleets, will be grounded; Continental Air Lines figures to save 19 million gal. of jet fuel a year just by replacing 747s with DC-10s on its Honolulu runs. Many of the cabin luxuries and ticketing options that passengers have taken for granted will disappear. First class may give way to all-economy seating, and tourist accommodations may become more crowded as cabins...