Word: cancellations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin joined his fellow heads of government, by invitation, in Munich and tossed out a novel idea for paring down his country's crushing $70 billion foreign debt. He would trade property -- land, factories, warehouses, oil and mining concessions -- to Western investors, government and private, that would in turn cancel Moscow's debts to them. The seven offered what German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called an extended breathing space. No details, but probably Russia can wangle a two-year moratorium during which it pays only interest on its loans...
...problem with sorting out these influences is that they interact in complex ways and may, to some extent, cancel each other out. Pinatubo's cooling effects could counteract the warming caused by greenhouse gases, at least over the short term. At the same time, El Nino's warming influence seems to have suppressed the early cooling effects of Pinatubo's global haze...
Clyde Bergstresser, the attorney for three ofthe women accusing Daniels, told The Globe thatthe Board should cancel Daniels' license as well...
...cold war is over, but the defense budget rolls on. The Senate last week refused the Administration's request to cancel two nuclear-powered Seawolf attack submarines that will cost $3 billion apiece. The vote was orchestrated by Senator Christopher Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut, where the subs are built. The House version of the bill includes one extra Seawolf...
...number. Better still, it's possible to limit 700 calls to those who get a secret password from the subscriber (in this case, it's the recipient who gets billed, not the caller). Unfortunately, the new service retains one drawback of call forwarding: if the user forgets to cancel a phone's programming, the 700 calls will keep ringing long after he or she has moved...