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Word: cancels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...march, set for September 16, was announced during a rally two days earlier, on Wednesday. It was called off after Carter met with the two students, Steve Ray and Angela Ranieri who were organizing the march and convinced them to cancel the demonstration and resort to more "rational" means of discourse...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Your Guest is as Good as Mine | 10/5/1988 | See Source »

...after a public uproar, promoters wereforced to cancel the performances, and promised toredeem empty cigarette packs for a cassette tapeof the singer...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Tobacco Divestment Weighed | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

...businesses is that companies in competing industrial countries have similar problems. In Western Europe, where air travel increased 8% in 1987 and is expected to jump more than 7% this year, terminals have become mob scenes. At Munich's airport one day this summer, congestion prompted officials to cancel 27 of Lufthansa's 59 domestic flights. A prime cause of the crunch is Europe's fractured air-control system, which is composed of 42 separate civilian control centers, plus additional military jurisdictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gridlock! Congestion on America's highways and runways | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...Britain authorities decided to go ahead with this week's Farnborough air show despite calls for cancellation of the biennial display, one of the world's biggest. British officials said they were confident their safety rules would prevent an accident like the one at Ramstein. France too will proceed with scheduled shows because its rules, according to an air force statement, "are very rigorous." Spanish officials said they were "studying" whether to cancel a joint Spanish-American aerial display in Zaragoza next month, but it will probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany Hellfire from The Heavens | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...Dukakis is "a true liberal who, instead of controlling Government spending, raises taxes." Of course Reagan also raised taxes, and certainly didn't control Government spending. But he hypnotized the voters into thinking they could treat "liberalism" like one of those magazine-subscription deals where you can write "Please cancel" on the bill and keep the first few issues anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hypocrisy and the L Word | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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