Word: cancellous
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...could even be that economic forecasting has reached the point where its validity is so generally accepted that businessmen move to cancel out the economists' predictions before anyone has a chance to see whether they will turn out right. "In this sense," says New York Economist Martin Gainsbrugh dryly, "forecasts are at times self-defeating...
...German for the two male leads-English Tenor Peter Pears and German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. But Fischer-Dieskau, who was so moved during the Coventry performance that he was barely able to sing some of his lines, had an attack of bronchitis and was forced to cancel in Germany. His part was taken by Austrian Baritone Walter Berry. The audience seemed almost hypnotized from the work's opening lines to Owen's closing "Let us sleep...
...Jews, most of the people of Israel seem as bitter as ever toward the Germans. The mere visit of a German Protestant pastor to a Jerusalem school recently provoked a national outcry. Last month, public opinion forced Israel's top chamber music orchestra to cancel a concert tour in West Germany. A law states that no West German firm may operate in Israel...
...enormously vital they are. The old Jacob Hummel, who must comprehend and dominate an ornate, almost Florentine, tangle of intrigue in the first and second acts, cows everyone in the Loeb with his knowledge of sin. "I've caused misery and been miserable myself," he says, "They must cancel each other...
...York Times the committee interpreted the amendments making it a crime for a member of the Communist Party, an defined by the Warren Act to apply for NDEA funds. The committee also objected to the vagueness of the amendment which states the Commissioner of Education can cancel or revoke an award if he thinks an award is "not in the best interests of the United States." The Columbia group protests that this amendment connotes "no guarantees of due process for the student...