Word: cancelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answer to each of these questions might well be `no.' The problem with the Smithsonian's decision to cancel the show does not hinge on its content (which may well have gone too far) so much as the notion that it is no longer permissible to inquire into the recesses of our own memory, critically and dispassionately--and publicly...
...crude for the more mainstream politicians. They argue instead that he is isolated in the Kremlin, is badly misinformed and is falling under the sway of a "war party" of military and security officials. Other critics go further, speculating that Yeltsin is scheming to declare a state of emergency, cancel the 1996 presidential elections and rule by decree...
...that's the sound of the NHL season being cut down. Although NHL commissioner Gary Bettman hasn't canceled the 1994-95 campaign yet, the owners yesterday gave him authority to cancel the season if it comes down to a point where 50 games will not be played...
...girl, scribbling in her diary, who wins the Sylvia Plath Prize for the most achingly sensitive poem. Even her anthems (the up- tempo House of Cards and Jubilee) have the feel of requiems. The title song chides the middle class for its double-entry morality: "We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite,/ We kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt." John Doe No. 24 is the poignant testament of a blind, deaf boy found on an Illinois street in 1945. And he's not the only lonely one. In Chapin Country...
...when it's all over, pocket half of every dollar, if any, it saves the city of Hartford. The company said it would immediately pump $1.6 million into fixing the most ramshackle buildings, and another $14 million into new technology. The board remains in final control, and can cancel the contract on 90 days' notice...