Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...fall, with the legacy of council incompetence and apathy at the top of their minds, one-sixth of Harvard undergraduates just said no to the council. More than 1000 students took the time to find that little line on their term bills which gives $16.67 to the council, and cancel their "donation." When you consider that very few first-year students even knew that they were funding the council, this figure is remarkable...
...approved, money for it had to be set aside. The practice horrified financial advisers who thought the cash should be invested to earn interest, but when oil prices broke and the kingdom's oil income plunged to $20 billion annually or less, Fahd, then King, did not have to cancel any projects...
...today would save us from $50 oil in a few years, why pay that extra $11 to oil producers? Why not buy the oil for $10, slap on an $11 tax and pocket the difference ourselves? That would raise about $40 billion a year -- just about enough to cancel the budget summit. (Last month's crisis. Remember?) A tax on imports alone would raise half that, allowing domestic producers to keep the difference. Yet the policy of two Republican administrations -- read their lips -- has been that it is better for the money to go into the treasury in Riyadh than...
...along. Angrily, Mackintosh declared that Equity had created "a poisonous atmosphere in which creativity and artistic freedom cannot function or survive." He then dealt the coup de grace: "If Equity is unwilling to take steps to ensure that reason and fairness prevail, then I have no choice but to cancel Miss Saigon." Gone, for the moment, were the other Saigon roles that would have employed 29 Asian and Asian-American actors. Frozen, for the nonce, was the record $25 million the show had banked in advance ticket sales. Like the event it put to music, Miss Saigon was becoming...
...American journalists. But they also take five weeks of vacation every year, plus nearly a week at Easter and nearly two weeks at Christmas when the office is shut, plus the usual holidays. And it would take more than a mere war somewhere to get an Economist editor to cancel his or her summer...