Word: cancellous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Home Minister Stoffel Botha said that, in shooting and broadcasting film of the funeral Wednesday in the black township of Alexandra, the network acted in "flagrant contempt" of a court verdict upholding a police ban on cameras at the scene. CBS and other networks had asked the court to cancel the prohibition...
...last meeting of the CUE two weeks ago, the committee supported a plan to cancel classes on the Thursday and Friday before exam week in order to give students a break from work. The committee suggested compensating for the loss of the two class days by having classes on two holidays during the semester...
With so many lobbyists pulling strings, they may sometimes seem to cancel one another out. But at the very least, they have the power to obstruct, and their overall effect can be corrosive. At times the halls of power are so glutted with special pleaders that government itself seems to be gagging. As Congress and the Administration begin working this month to apportion the deepest spending cuts in America's history and to sort out the most far- reaching reform of the tax laws since World War II, the interests of the common citizen seem to stand no chance against...
When the big lobbying guns line up on opposite sides of an issue, they tend to cancel each other out. Threatened with a takeover by Mobil Oil in 1981, Marathon Oil hired Tommy Boggs' firm to push a congressional bill that would block the merger. The firm managed to get the bill through the House by using a little-known procedural rule at a late-night session. In the Senate, however, Mobil--represented by former Carter Aide Stuart Eizenstat--was able to stop the bill when Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama blocked consideration on the Senate floor. Heflin...
...Manila, thick with political tension ever since Marcos issued his surprise election call, grew even more claustrophobic last week with the latest campaign soundings. The rumor mills that grind endlessly in the city's crowded coffeehouses increased their outpourings of speculation. Fears flew that Marcos might try to cancel the balloting, a possibility that he has never quite rejected. Opponents of the President were worried that he intended to rig the election contest even more blatantly than other votes have been altered in the past. If that happened, they warned darkly, Aquino supporters by the tens of thousands would take...