Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to move exams back and shrink reading period, better cancel all extracurricular activities. Nobody will have the time if they have to do schoolwork. Better cancel the field hockey team. Better close down PBH. And definitely stop publishing this newspaper...
...Europeans, since Britain and France would now be able to keep their nuclear missiles even as the Soviets remove all their SS-20s from Europe. The U.S., on the other hand, would have to withdraw all its missiles from Europe, and the British and French would be forced to cancel plans to upgrade theirs. Then last month Gorbachev told Kennedy that contrary to earlier warnings, "there are no preconditions" to an INF agreement. The Soviet leader indicated that he and Reagan could sign an interim arms-control agreement at their expected summit later this year, regardless of a continuing impasse...
Home Minister Stoffel Botha said that, in shooting and broadcasting film of the funeral Wednesday in the black township of Alexandra, the network acted in "flagrant contempt" of a court verdict upholding a police ban on cameras at the scene. CBS and other networks had asked the court to cancel the prohibition...
...last meeting of the CUE two weeks ago, the committee supported a plan to cancel classes on the Thursday and Friday before exam week in order to give students a break from work. The committee suggested compensating for the loss of the two class days by having classes on two holidays during the semester...
When the big lobbying guns line up on opposite sides of an issue, they tend to cancel each other out. Threatened with a takeover by Mobil Oil in 1981, Marathon Oil hired Tommy Boggs' firm to push a congressional bill that would block the merger. The firm managed to get the bill through the House by using a little-known procedural rule at a late-night session. In the Senate, however, Mobil--represented by former Carter Aide Stuart Eizenstat--was able to stop the bill when Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama blocked consideration on the Senate floor. Heflin...