6. GNM reserves the right to charge a cancellation fee of 50% of the quoted Fees should the Client cancel their purchase following acceptance of GNM's quotation 7.
At the last minute, she wrote, the client canceled the event.
One client canceled an order for a $1,700 custom-made brass keypad for controlling his lighting system, but he bought a $30,000 flat-screen, high-resolution television "because that's what he really wanted for his money," Ms. Kent said.
Most said they felt confident that the government would manage the crisis, but there were hints of fallout: investment bankers mourning their lost bonuses, a client canceling a trip abroad to stay home and monitor his stock price.
"If a client canceled on me and I was left with an hour to kill, I'd find myself in Bergdorf Goodman," she says.
She said that immediately after Sept. 11, several clients canceled tours to India, and that there had been additional cancellations throughout the winter.
Clients canceled accounts; some agencies closed.
But when he died in 1990, many clients canceled their orders or demanded a discount because the pieces wouldn't have the signature of "the master".
NCR attributed the shortfall to clients' canceling orders for data-analysis computers and software, which it said in May would be its fastest path to profit growth.
Scott Shamburger, a contractor who also owns several rental properties, said he had clients cancel five construction projects worth $2 million in the weeks after the spill began, including two commercial properties.
