Word: canceled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...vigils brought people out of their homes to the town square, then a plane rumbled overhead. Inhale, look up, follow the lights till they disappear, exhale and return to the prayers. It's hard to have the perfect autumn wedding when all the out-of-town guests call to cancel. Life insurance policies were selling fast...
...Yasser Arafat to discuss restoring the failed cease-fire was less significant for what it achieved (not much) than for the fact that it happened at all. Although the meeting was arranged before the September 11 attacks, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had immediately afterward ordered his foreign minister to cancel the talks. Sharon branded Arafat "our Bin Laden" and ratcheted up Israeli military activity in the West Bank and Gaza, mounting 16 incursions into Palestinian Authority-controlled areas in the week following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Sharon's change of heart - allowing the meeting to go ahead...
...when Columbia and Fordham refused to cancel their football game until Friday, the day before the scheduled contest, one couldn’t help but feel repulsed. How could the two New York City schools even consider playing on with bodies still being hauled out of the debris across town...
Harvard has decided to follow the lead of most professional and collegiate sports and cancel all of its intercollegiate athletic contests through this weekend in the wake of Tuesday’s attacks in New York and Washington...
...thought long and hard about this issue and have tried as hard as we could to return to normal operations,” Scalise said, “but at this point we find it appropriate to cancel our athletic contests for the coming weekend...