Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against it. The book smolders with old indignations; yet there are notable flashpoints. From Herbert Woodward Martin's A Negro Soldier's Viet Nam Diary: "Do not celebrate me when and if I come home. I step around the smallest creature these days." From Poet Muriel Rukeyser: "Cancel war, we were taught./ What is left is peace. . . it is no canceling;/ The fierce and human peace is our deep power/ Born to us of wish and responsibility." Veteran Harrison Kohler recalls the excitement and intensity of his fighting days: "It is easy to look...
Hinckley "just seems to be someone who could get upset and angry enough about the political system to use a bullet to cancel out the ballot. A lot of people feel that way about the system. Including me," Manno wrote...
Finally, More than three years after he had accepted a teaching position at Harvard. Polish dissident scholar Stanislaw Baranczak arrived in Cambridge this week. Polish authorities last month granted him a passport after having rejected seven previous applications. "There was a rumor they would cancel all the flights," the 34-year-old poet said after arriving here. "Almost to the last minute we weren't sure if everything would go all right," he added. But they did, and Baranczak will likely begin teaching next fall as part of his three-year associate professorship...
...retrenchment came as no surprise to foreign companies that in the past month alone have had Peking cancel or suspend five major projects worth $2.5 billion. Most seriously affected are Japanese and West German firms that rushed into the Chinese market in 1978 and 1979, at the outset of Peking's ambitious drive for industrial expansion. Japanese companies, including Toyo Engineering K.K. and Mitsui Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., have lost $640 million worth of contracts to build seven turnkey petrochemical plants in Nanjing, Shengli and Peking. Of its five contracts for similar plants, Lurgi Gesellschaften, a Frankfurt-based engineering combine...
Stamas added that if the Collegium does decide to go to Lebanon the final acceptance will contain a provision allowing both the chorus and the Lebanese government to cancel the visit if sudden violence occurs in the area...