Engineers speak of canceled and postponed projects, and of money drying up.
They spoke of canceled afterschool programs, closed counseling centers, and new hardships faced by the county's poorest residents.
Just last week, Breitbart News editor and public speaker Milo Yiannopoulos saw one of his speaking engagements canceled when a protest against him at UC Berkeley turned into a violent riot.
He spoke of cancelling an Obama administration programme that gives work permits to about 800,000 young immigrants who came to the US as children – a stance likely to slam shut any chance of Latino outreach.
The pair were scheduled to speak until Benioff canceled last minute.
Alan Keyes saying the party would not offer him a prime speaking slot, canceled his appearance at the convention.
Mr. Olmos, for instance, canceled speaking engagements, his work for organizations like Unicef and his own film and television projects until April.
The S.E.C. also announced that its chief accountant, Robert K. Herdman, who is also being investigated as well for his role in Mr. Webster's selection, had canceled speaking engagements this week.
Dr. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for describing the double-helix structure of DNA, and later headed the American government's part in the international Human Genome Project, is leaving in a swirl of denunciations and canceled speaking invitations, including one from Rockefeller University, which yesterday canceled a lecture he was to have given next week.
Ms. Gandhi was scheduled to speak in Uttarakhand, but canceled citing "viral fever," raising new questions about her health.
