By committing three errors — there have been 12 in Santana's nine starts — the Mets nearly canceled the good vibes generated by an offense that scored only one fewer run Friday than it had in its previous four games.
American Airlines canceled a good chunk of its schedule beginning on Tuesday — more than 2,000 flights — for maintenance checks set off by concerns over wiring in its fleet of MD-80 aircraft.
After signing for a one-under 71 on Saturday, McIlroy pointed to mental mistakes, like the one he blamed for the three-putt at No. 13, that derailed his round as the reason he added a tournament and canceled a good-will trip to Haiti before the Masters.
ABC quickly canceled his Good Morning America appearance the next morning citing concerns that he might not be family friendly, and the LGBT community quickly called out the double standard of chastising Lambert for a racy performance while idolizing female artists like Brittney Spears or Madonna.
The melt-in-the-mouth ultra-rich butter cookies, however, served with the fruit might cancel any good intentions.
Amtorg was outraged at recent religious uprisings in Russia, and had to cancel a good--will trip they were going to sponsor between Chicago and Moscow.
"We all knew that if we couldn't generate any interest at E3 that year, then the game would be cancelled for good," Patrick J. Barrett III, one of the game's programmers, told me.
You see evidence of this all the time: a network renews a bad show, cancels a good show, or puts on a new show and promotes it as being terrific and later reveals that insiders knew all along that it stank, as Jeff Zucker, then the president of NBC Entertainment, did in the case of the ghastly 2003 comedy "Coupling".
