Word: cancelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe you'd better cancel that vacation to Antarctica. The bald patch in the ozone layer above the South Pole is bigger than ever this year, NASA scientists announced Tuesday. It's now about 10.4 million square miles -- a little bigger than North America -- and that's 5 percent bigger than the previous record set in 1996. And while the quantity of the ultraviolet-ray-blocking gas in the affected area is not as thin as it has been, according to the agency, "the lowest amounts of ozone are likely to be seen in the next week...
...Prince of Egypt. Disney had completely underestimated the phenomenon Toy Story would be, but it was expecting great things from A Bug's Life. It had its McDonald's meals and its merchandise deals all lined up. Pixar has alleged that Katzenberg was so intimidated that he offered to cancel Antz if Disney would move A Bug's Life away from Prince of Egypt. DreamWorks denies that, but Katzenberg eventually shifted Prince of Egypt to what he thought would be a safer date...
...hang signs in the arena and hand out free samples of that cowboy staple, Copenhagen and Skoal chewing tobacco, the American Lung Association took out full-page ads in the local newspaper in protest. This prompted M.S.U. president MIKE MALONE to invoke the new campus antitobacco rule and cancel the event, sending national organizers off to look for a tobacco-friendly site, perhaps Oklahoma City or Las Vegas. One man's vice lord, of course, can be a cowboy's benefactor--U.S. Tobacco provides significant scholarship money to college cowboy and cowgirl athletes. Meanwhile, football season has been enthusiastically greeted...
Annan originally planned to speak last November, but an impending showdown between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the U.N. forced him to cancel...
...before you cancel the beach-house rental and pack the pup tent, you should know that Slab City--which got its name from the concrete remnants of a World War II training ground used by General Patton--isn't exactly Palm Springs minus ex-Presidents and bad pants...