Word: canceled
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...competition attracted impassioned complaints from animal-rights groups, but Nucla was not fazed by the protests. When Governor Roy Romer asked the town to cancel the festive slaughter, Mayor John Vanderpool replied, "Buzz off." And when 40 or so humane activists showed up in Nucla to yell at the gunslingers ("It takes a big man to kill a little prairie dog!"), townsfolk had a ready retort: "Eat some lettuce!" After Nucla counted the money visitors had pumped into the town ($75,000), it was decided to plan an even bigger shoot next year...
...work on the bomb that initiated his now famous political activism. Shocked at the thousands of lives being lost by scientifically unneccessary nuclear tests designed for purely power-brokering purposes, he urged Khrushchev to cancel tests that were duplicating earlier efforts. Although this request was refused and the nuclear test killed thousands of Soviets, he expresses pride in the fact that his encouragement was largely responsible for the Moscow Limited Test Ban Treaty which eliminated tests in the atmosphere, ocean, and space...
Councillor James M. Kelly also asked Flynn, in a letter addressed yesterday, to cancel an upcoming exhibit of photographs taken by the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe...
...weeks ago, Harvard, which was to host the 1992 conference, announced that it will cancel the meeting unless the law is changed. But the move was settled upon only as a "stop-gap measure" after months of pressure on Washington met with little success, according to University officials...
...embarked on his journey only a week after removal of a cyst from his bladder, and in recent years he has also had tuberculosis and prostate surgery. There were reports -- promptly denied by A.N.C. spokesmen and Mandela -- that he felt faint last week in Geneva and had to cancel a meeting. Out of concern for his health, planners in the U.S. tried to schedule free time between large events so Mandela would be able to rest. But Mandela does not have to try to do everything on this trip. Demand for the international superstar is so intense that the A.N.C...