Until recently, when you cancelled a ticket booked on Amtrak before the train left, the company would simply refund the money to your credit card.

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You need an image of the cancelled check.

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You've known about that one for months, and you know it won't be cancelled.

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Can you imagine the outcry if the NFL cancelled their first two weeks of games?

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You know, that same Lady Gaga whose tour was cancelled because of (poor tickets sales) a hip injury.

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The even lines would be cancelled out by the odd lines and all you'd see was green and purple mixed.

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What we're watching : The bad side of the World Series, is all the other networks defer with reruns and b-quality programming, so if you don't like baseball or the game is cancelled due to rain, there's not much on.

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If you have been planning a trip to Egypt, your flight will probably be cancelled, if it has not been already.

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So you might remember that earlier this year SanDisk introduced, and then somewhat abruptly cancelled, the Sansa View, a new widescreen flash-based portable media player.

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If you lose your job, for whatever reason, you have 60 days to find another one, or else your work visa is cancelled.

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And if you took the view four years ago that the quantum of debt in the system was unsustainably large, then you would argue that by propping up the banks, the day of reckoning was being postponed, not cancelled.

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