Word: cancellation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's long-awaited speech on U.S. policy toward South Africa reflected the deep uncertainty that exists on that issue even within the Administration. Many White House aides thought it was politically self-destructive and ought not be given at all. At one point a decision was made to cancel it. In the end, though, it had one particularly firm and powerful advocate inside the White House: Ronald Reagan, who had never given a major address on South Africa in his 6 1/2 years as President, wanted to set the record straight...
...increased enrollment in the Summer School this year was, I think, poorly titled. The title read: "Libya Crowds Summer Session." It is very likely the case, as is pointed out in the article, that the threat of terrorist actions against U.S. citizens has caused a number of people to cancel plans to travel abroad this summer and in turn contributed to the increase in Summer School enrollment. Your title, however, indicates that you have unconsciously (perhaps) accepted as fact the Reagan administration's claim that the terrorist actions are all (or mostly) the result of a plot emanating from Tripoli...
Illness and low course enrollment caused six instructors to cancel seven courses, Pihl said. Usually about four courses are cancelled for the summer but Pihl did not attribute the higher number to any particular trend...
...never cancel courses," Pihl said, but he added "we have got to accede to requests by instructors' who no longer want to teach a course they have already agreed...
...only the Pentagon but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and numerous private communications companies are eager for NASA to resume shuttle operations. So is the agency, which has already lost some $200 million in fees it would have collected from launch contracts that it has been forced to cancel since the Challenger disaster...