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Illness and low course enrollment caused six instructors to cancel seven courses, Pihl said. Usually about four courses are cancelled for the summer but Pihl did not attribute the higher number to any particular trend...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: 7 Summer Courses Cancelled | 6/26/1986 | See Source »

...never cancel courses," Pihl said, but he added "we have got to accede to requests by instructors' who no longer want to teach a course they have already agreed...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: 7 Summer Courses Cancelled | 6/26/1986 | See Source »

...only the Pentagon but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and numerous private communications companies are eager for NASA to resume shuttle operations. So is the agency, which has already lost some $200 million in fees it would have collected from launch contracts that it has been forced to cancel since the Challenger disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Fixing Nasa | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...everything goes over until next week--and the struggle may not end even then. A week or two after the June 5 vote, congressional opponents of the Saudis are likely to begin a move to defer or cancel delivery of the five AWACS aircraft and eight support tanker planes that Riyadh has had on order since 1981. That move may fail, but probably only after another ugly, drawn- out fight that will advance U.S. interests in the Middle East not one iota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No-Win Battle Over Saudi Arms | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

BRITAIN. Radiation fears led members of the London Festival Ballet, a leading British dance company, to vote unanimously to cancel a spring tour of the Soviet Union. The three-week visit would have been the first by a British dance troupe in 25 years. A government unit that monitors radiation reported that "it is perfectly safe to drink milk or tap water, and there is no need to take iodine tablets." Still, whiskymakers in Scotland fretted that concerns about radioactive water could damage sales. Said Alan Rutherford, a water-research officer for Scottish malt distillers: "We take water from lochs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union More Fallout From Chernobyl | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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