Word: cancels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contribute its own troops to the alliance, Bonn has stiffened its attitude -on support costs, which many Germans choose to call "occupation costs." Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, an open foe of support payments, has even implied that if his government does agree to any payments, he will cancel large chunks of his ministry's several hundred million-dollar U.S.-arms contracts. Though his domestic arms buildup is going so slowly that he seems unlikely to spend the $2.5 billion allotted him this year, Strauss announced last week that he was cutting back from 700 to 400 the number...
...parental bounds into the professional academic field. Even in Newton, parental groups have been able to convince the School Committee into providing Driver Education courses in the high school: a simple, reasonable request, but in a less-educated community, a school board could be similarly convinced to initiate, or cancel, other, and more significant projects out of desire to please parents...
...Moscow, in its newly toughened attitude towards ideological dissension in the satellites, was dropping hints with the subtlety of a trip hammer that it might cancel a promised $175 million Soviet credit for construction of an aluminum plant in Tito's Montenegro on the ground that Tito was also taking money from the U.S. This led Belgrade's party newspaper Borba to suggest that the Soviet Union "believes that it alone has the right to do business with the U.S.," and that it is now Moscow, not Washington, that puts strings on economic...
From Teheran to Texas, many an oilman grumbled that the new deals would inspire other oil-rich Middle Eastern countries to cancel their present fifty-fifty deals and demand sweeter contracts. But calmer leaders in the industry brushed such remarks aside. Said Howard Page, Middle East boss for Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey): "Some oilmen say that it is immoral or something to bid in a certain way. Baloney! I certainly do not want anyone to tell...
Damn you, TIME. Every time I get ready to cancel my subscription you come out with an article like this...