Word: canceled
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...Every day, pleading overwork, millions of men cancel millions of promises made to millions of children. Dads cannot read bedtime stories or go to the park. Dads are in their offices, or on the road, or on conference calls. The effects of this physical or emotional absenteeism are actually quantifiable: numerous academic studies have shown that children with distant fathers score lower on tests of empathy, reasoning and brain development than those whose fathers are more involved. The former behave more aggressively, don't get on as well with siblings, tend to be less popular in school and are more...
...presidential elections, allowing him to rule until 2010. Instead, his potential successors united, and the resolution was dropped from the agenda. Recently zanu-PF dissidents have been meeting the opposition parties, and have blocked their leader's attempts to call a state of emergency that would allow him to cancel all elections. That means there will be a presidential poll next year. Will Mugabe be the zanu-PF candidate? The very fact that this is a question demonstrates how rapidly his power is ebbing away...
...opportunity--the BBC signed a deal in early March to set up three new "channels" on Google's YouTube site to show short video clips from its programs and share in the ad revenue YouTube generates. "One of the things no media organization can do now is cancel the future," he said...
...dollars in the fight against global warming. On the other hand, his Virgin Galactic will send passengers on a joyride, first via jet, then via spacecraft, burning up an insane amount of carbon-based fuel and adding substantially to global warming. Is one of Branson's activities supposed to cancel the other, or am I the only one who is terribly confused in this regard? Daniel Long San Francisco
...uninitiated, Trout Day originated when the local school district first decided to cancel class because too many students would skip to go fishing. Out of that small move, a local holiday was born. But, time has gone by and now most students don’t go fishing on their day off. I can hardly blame them. I never went fishing on Trout Day. The majority of the people I know didn’t go either. It was a day, in my mind that was too cold, too crowded, and started too early...