Word: rescindment
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...Soviets also maintain that there are fewer than 200 staffers now registered at their mission, well below the figure of 218 claimed by the U.S. Yet on this issue, both sides seemed to leave plenty of room for maneuvering. The Soviets were not insisting that the U.S. actually rescind the expulsion order, only that the Americans make some gesture of reconciliation. "It is a question of prestige," said a Soviet official...
LANDING RIGHTS. The government-owned South African Airways flew 100,000 passengers, mostly white officials, businessmen and tourists, to and from the U.S. last year. The proposal by some Senators and others to rescind the country's landing rights in the U.S. would inconvenience such travelers, probably causing a half-day detour through European cities. Quite quickly, however, small airlines in Swaziland or Botswana could expand, with South Africa's help, to fill the void...
...February 4, 1969, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted 207-125 to strip ROTC courses of any academic credit and to rescind the appointments of all ROTC instructors. At the time there were 133 midshipmen in the Navy program and more than 100 in the Army unit...
Approximately 15 percent of animals used at the Health Sciences Division--which includes the medical, dental, and nursing schools--are affected under the NIH's action to rescind $75 million in funding...
...thought first of the teacher and her children -- her own and her students. One wanted to snatch them away from the sight and rescind the thing they had seen. But the moment was irrevocable. Over and over, the bright extinction played on the television screen, almost ghoulishly repeated until it had sunk into the collective memory. And there it will abide, abetted by the weird metaphysics of videotape, which permits the endless repetition of a brute finality...