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...fight at any minute." Egypt would not be frightened, he said in a speech, "even if the U.S. gives every Israeli a tank." Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa scheduled air-raid drills for Cairo and Alexandria, but more moderate elements in Sadat's government prevailed on the President to cancel them. In addition, night lights on the Nile River bridges were turned on for the first time since January, when Israel launched the first of its deep-penetration air-raids in response to Nasser's "war of attrition...
BROWN-COLGATE: Imagine being the promoter who brought this game to Providence. What next? The annual chess match between Roger Williams Jr College and Salem State? Granted, after playing Yale and Dartmouth on successive weekends, Brown deserves a break. But Colgate? It's too late to cancel the game, though. The Bruins...
Many companies now avoid writing policies on mountain, seashore and vacation homes because they are too exposed to vandalism and fire. One loss is often enough for underwriters to cancel a home or auto policy. For example, Greta Waingrow, a housewife in Brentwood, Calif., not long ago collected on a policy after the mysterious disappearance of her engagement ring. "It was the only thing of value I'd lost in 17 years of insurance," she contends. A month later, the company canceled her policy-without explanation...
Such clanking devices would have even seemed excessive back in 1870, but restraint is a word unknown to Sackler. Jefferson refuses a standing offer to take a dive for a white champ in order to cancel out his previous "crimes." In a final Meaningful Act, he even rejects his beloved Eleanor, whom he suddenly sees as an albatross. In a scene that would shame Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eleanor's drowned body is brought onstage, and the broken Jefferson capitulates...
...consultation was largely unsuccessful, and the situation became so critical that Harvard started planning to cancel the 1906 season...