Word: cancelling
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Federal authorities arrested Christopher Johnson on arson charges, accusing him of having set fire last August to Alabama's Randolph County High School, the school beset with racial discord after its principal, Hulond Humphries, threatened to cancel a prom over interracial dating. Emmett Johnson, the suspect's father and founder of a local protest group called the Black Panther Militia, asserted that the arrest was a frame...
...heart of the question of whether the Republicans are really serious about cutting unnecessary government or whether their rhetoric is just a veiled attack on the poor and working class for the purpose of scoring political points. Just last month, the Republicans blocked a move by Congressional Democrats to cancel one of the most repugnant tax loopholes on the U.S. books. Through a specially crafted provision, a small number of mega-billionaires renounce their American citizenship every year in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes. These individuals take citizenship in St. Kitts, the Bahamas, Belize, or other low-tax countries...
TIME: Can you foresee any circumstances that might lead you to postpone or cancel the 1996 elections...
Expect the two big men, Robinson and Patrick Ewing, to cancel each other out, thus putting the series in the hands of the supporting casts. The Knicks will put up a fight, but in the end won't have enough offensive fire-power. Game, set and championship to the Spurs in six games...
Russia refused to cancel itssale of nuclear reactorsto Iran, despite Defense Secretary William Perry's warning during talks in Moscow today thatthe dealcould enable Iran to build a nuclear weapons arsenal. Perry said that while Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin assured him that Russia will make sure Iran does not use plutonium from the reactors to manufacture weapons, the U.S. is not confident that Russia can do so. TIME senior editor George Russell says Russia sees Iran as a "major ideological threat," a key Muslim power with links to Muslims in the southern tier of the former Soviet Union...