Word: cancellous
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Company officials said they would cancel the loan, while claiming they had warned retailers away from the project only because they felt the quick tempered Kiritsis was not up to managing it. Next, Kiritsis demanded full immunity from prosecution. The following day county officials agreed-on the condition that Hall would immediately be released. But Kiritsis waited another day, while his lawyer looked over the immunity agreement, before pronouncing himself satisfied. Then, beaming in what he thought was triumph, he marched Hall-still wired to the shotgun-into a lobby crowded with newsmen and police...
...most dramatic blow to tourism, however, came in 1975, with former President Luis Echeverria's decision to align Mexico with those countries in the U.N. that voted to equate Zionism with racism. The vote was no sooner recorded than U.S. Jews rushed out to their travel agents to cancel their reservations for Mexican vacations. The tourist business has yet to recover from that devastating period. López Portillo cannot erase his country's vote in the U.N., but he is doing his utmost to convince foreigners of all persuasions that Mexico is once again...
...Blue Leaves) is of a rarer kind: his mind is a virtual breeder reactor of dramatic themes large and small. In Marco Polo Sings a Solo, a comedy now playing at Manhattan's Public Theater, Guare's reactor has run away from him. Ideas meet, collide and cancel one another out, like so many errant atoms, and his play explodes in a dozen directions...
University officials hope that income generated by fundraising may cancel out the heating costs and produce a surplus, he added...
...Exercising veto power over major economic development projects, in one case causing a developer to cancel plans for a much-needed luxury hotel that city officials had already approved...