Word: cancellation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...announcing this year's crackdown, the MDC threatened to cancel the race permanently if it failed to work. And it didn...
Earlier this week, a group of North Housestudents presented Mayman with a petition signedby 180 Quadlings asking her to cancel the stripesproject. "We just want the Quad finished. Thelater you plant the grass, the more likely it isto die," said Eric D. Wolff'88, who organized theanti-stripe campaign...
HARVARD OFFICIALS have displayed this readiness to cancel events in the face of minor incidents several times, most notably during the Kent-Brown incident last year, when several Harvard students attempted a blockade during the South African diplomat's speech. Harvard Police rushed Kent-Brown out of the room as the blockade formed, and Dean Epps ended the speech without an attempt to negotiate with the protestors--even though the students presented no physical threat to the speaker and had left the front entrance to the auditorium clear...
OBVIOUSLY, the University must not tolerate violent protests such as Laub's attack. However, there is no need to cancel a speech every time a minor disruption occurs...
...attack. Even before he saw it, the Rev. Jerry Falwell referred to it as "Communist propaganda" and threatened a Moral Majority boycott of HBO during September. Claiming that Mandela is "pro-terrorist," Citizens for Reagan, a lobbying group, has said it will call on its 100,000 members to cancel their HBO subscriptions. In response, HBO Chairman Michael Fuchs declared that viewers should make up their own minds about the movie...