Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned out that the warning center, which regularly transmits a taped test message to the news-service wires, had inadvertently sent an actual warning tape. To unstick the panic button and resolve the confusion, the center finally got through the prearranged code signal canceling the alert. Quite unintentionally, it sounded a sardonically witty note: CANCEL MESSAGE SENT AT 09:33 EST. MESSAGE AUTHENTICATOR: IMPISH, IMPISH...
...protesters, he gave in to their demands. Bargaining personally with the strikers, Gierek agreed to rescind a complicated new bonus system that workers feared would reduce their take-home pay. He also raised the minimum wage and pensions. But Gierek held fast on one crucial point: he refused to cancel an average 17% increase in food prices...
...tough law-and-order security chief who crushed a 1947 Lodz strike in which two workers died and 80 were wounded. The Soviet Union came to Gierek's rescue by offering an estimated $500 million in credits and grain shipments. Buoyed by Soviet help, Gierek was able to cancel the price increases. The Lodz workers went back to work and the rest of the country remained quiet...
...recruiter then decided to cancel his visit and asked that the two people signed up for interviews forward resumes to the Underwater Sound...
...washed out, it is conceivable-though highly unlikely-that Lockheed would have to cancel the TriStar and follow Rolls into bankruptcy; in that case, the Pentagon would doubtless find some way to keep Lockheed producing C-5A cargo planes and Poseidon missiles. The issues are serious enough to have prompted at least one transatlantic telephone conversation between President Nixon and British Prime Minister Edward Heath...