Word: cancelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These shows are especially hard to cancel as they tend to perpetuate themselves. A tragic story profiled on a show inspires another tragic story, which in turn, is profiled on the same show. The more Americans take these programs seriously, the deeper we fall into a sad new era in American culture--low-budget American realism...
China is also in effect asking for continued low American tariffs on its exports -- but in more truculent tones. When the House last week voted 313 to 112 to cancel most-favored-nation status next year unless China improves its human-rights record, Beijing denounced the "gross interference in China's internal affairs" and urged Congress "to stop this kind of practice." In other words, put up and shut...
...Western values, have broken into compounds in Riyadh and Jidda to threaten and arrest Westerners drinking home-brewed liquor in defiance of the ban on alcohol. A women's tennis tournament in Riyadh was halted when the mutawain learned of it. The government advised an oil-company executive to cancel a party because members of both sexes were invited. Wives of Western businessmen and diplomats are fearful of leaving their villas in the evening unless accompanied by their husbands. To do otherwise in the atmosphere of intimidation created by the mutawain is to risk imprisonment...
...Khmer Rouge sent to the killing fields all who spoke French or wore glasses or had soft hands. The Khmer Rouge aimed to cancel all previous history and begin at Year Zero. Utopia, this century has learned the hard way, usually bears a resemblance to hell. An evil chemistry turns the dream of salvation into damnation...
...numbers in the rear ranks were dwindling. A friend remembers that Chun was upset when students at the junior college affiliated with his university refused to cancel their annual spring festival celebrations after the suicides. The day he died, Chun surprised a confidant by asking, "Don't you think we would have more fighting activists if someone else killed himself by immolation?" Says Seoul National University sociology professor Han Wan Sang: "Self-immolation is an extreme form of the ignition effect -- an attempt to ignite society. If after the first two suicides the masses had been ignited, Chun...