Word: cancelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another student said a friend had to cancel a planned visit from Texas since he would have had nowhere to stay in Cambridge...
...were going to cancel it out tomorrow anyway and bring a new service in," he said...
...public and dares you not to watch, to read its dreams and trace its wounds. There is a reason most First Ladies tend to get along well later in life; they all know what it is like to try to protect the most powerful man in the world, to cancel the rally when he needs his sleep, to can the speechwriter who just won't cut it, to worry about who's in charge, to say the things no one else will when she tells her old man to clean up his language (Bess Truman), eat his broccoli (Barbara Bush...
Yeltsin did not link the firings to the detention of the campaign workers the night before, but others did. Reformers said the government had been split for months between a group that believed Yeltsin could win re-election and a faction led by Korzhakov that wanted to cancel the vote. Planting currency is an old KGB trick, and the hard-liners might have set up the campaign workers to embarrass the reformers; or the two men might really have been carrying foreign notes without proper documents, and the hard-liners simply seized on this infraction. In either case, they overplayed...
...Symington and Phoenix lender Jerome Hirsch drastically scaled down the money owed if Symington were to be President when the loan came due. The indictment's count of attempted extortion charges that in trying to soften repayment terms on the $10 million union loan, Symington as Governor threatened to cancel a lucrative Arizona State University lease...