Word: cancelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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State Department officials believe a copy of Khartoum's cable was sent to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, but the INS says it has not found it. All sides agree, however, that when the Khartoum embassy failed to cancel the visa, Washington should have been alerted so that it could tell INS to put Sheik Abdel Rahman on its own watch list. In April 1991 the immigration service made an unexplained error when it gave the sheik a green card attesting permanent resident status, although his visa by then had been revoked and he was in the U.S. illegally...
...cancel a commitment to address the University of Texas at Austin, speaking for half an hour without notes and with uncharacteristic emotion. She cited the observations of Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater as he lay dying from a brain tumor at age 40: "My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me -- a little heart, a lot of brotherhood . . . And to see that we must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul." She posed the questions...
Weeks go by without any mention of baseball on the news. Those of us who read the paper wonder why we didn't cancel our subscription after the World Series. And even though I try to fight it for a while, I start to pay attention to the front page again...
...Russia under a nationalist or neocommunist banner could be a disaster for its neighbors and the West. It would force reassessment of policies thoroughly changed by the end of the cold war. The prospect of facing an unfriendly Russia once more might force the Clinton Administration not just to cancel some planned Pentagon budget cuts but to begin beefing up military spending again, dashing hopes for reducing the budget deficit...
What activities were available for seniors who couldn't leave Cambridge this winter? "That's a really good question," said Johanna T. Chao, assistant director of the Cambridge Council on Aging. "We had to cancel many," she said, blaming the weather...