The government tried to stop the famine by canceling orders for technology.

"Businesses got scared off by rising interest rates, and they started canceling orders," he said.

But far worse, retailers there have begun canceling orders.

Nor are all sponsors of big celebrations canceling orders.

Many of the company's customers were going bankrupt, canceling orders and in some cases not paying for equipment that had already been delivered.

Mr. Williams said the rising inventory might reflect an increase in the number of customers who were canceling orders they had placed.

Bottlers began using sugar only, depleting their syrup inventories and canceling orders for more.

Rather than canceling orders, they're postponing them."

"Retailers are reducing and canceling orders."

Indeed, with the fever's evening rise he grew restless, wandering in his thoughts, giving and canceling orders, then demanding something to make him sleep.

They also give consumers the option of canceling orders that cannot be shipped during the 30-day period and of receiving prompt refunds.

Airbus representatives are canvassing other customers to see whether they, too, are considering canceling orders, and how to dissuade them from doing so.

While that could provide future growth, it has also been a double-edged sword, as struggling telecom companies have been canceling orders.

Companies pay a substantial penalty for canceling orders, but Boeing has sometimes waived it during downturns to avoid losing future orders.

"It means that businessmen might start canceling orders sooner than in the past," Mr. Donahoe said.

However, by the time it entered commercial service in 1940, many airlines were canceling orders; consequently, only five civilian DC-5s were ever built.

Other activities include canceling orders, building bunkers and gun turrets, issuing repair tasks and selling buildings for credits.

Although the vaccines were effective, many industrialised nations were giving away, selling, canceling orders for and destroying excess doses of the vaccine.

Fedoras and baseball caps were piled up in the warehouse, retailers were canceling orders, and the company feared it would have to lay off workers.

With companies like Boeing's biggest customer, United Airlines, mired in losses and talking of canceling orders, more will be laid off in 1993.

And they need to factor in phone lines that can clog and systems that become overwhelmed, causing time lags in placing and canceling orders.

On Tuesday, Dell said it was axing plans to build machines that suddenly looked like laggards, canceling orders with suppliers and taking a big charge against earnings.

Complaints submitted to investigative agencies describe tactics like promising low prices but canceling orders or making threats when customers decline to add batteries and other accessories to their purchases.

S.& P.'s action had been expected, and all the major airlines have made big cutbacks, either stretching out the delivery time for expensive new jetliners or canceling orders altogether.

Their dreams of pigeon-born wealth went anything but smoothly, however: A local mobster reputedly demanded a portion of the proceeds, while hotels had a habit of canceling orders.

FedEx is the only customer so far to cancel an order for the giant aircraft.

Belgium theatrically canceled an order for seven Austrian armored cars.

The chief of Russia's railroads said it would cancel an order for spare parts from Georgia.

If a customer cancels an order, extra manufacturing capacity could reduce the profitability of the production run.

After maintenance and reliability issues, West Riding cancelled an order for a further 25 vehicles.

But production woes have cost it at least one customer: FedEx canceled an order for 10 jets.

Canceling an order is idempotent, because the order remains canceled no matter how many requests are made.

"Fang, Butterfly just canceled an order worth one hundred forty million American dollars.

"I want to cancel an order.

The value of the ships was written down by £100m in 2010 after Trinidad and Tobago cancelled an order.

As of April 2009 no airline has cancelled an order for the passenger version of the A380.

So Mr. Bailin canceled an order he had already placed with Flashcom.

A third investor tried to cancel an order to buy 45 shares of a stock and received an acknowledgement that his cancellation order had been received.

"We've been selling so well," he said, "that we will not build a model house, and we canceled an order for a virtual image of a furnished interior."

By canceling an order for a new version of the Tomcat, Mr. Cheney expects to save $2.4 billion over the next five years.

The frenzy caused some transaction delays, with one trader reporting canceling an order after waiting 10 minutes for a sell order, during which the price dropped 17 points.

During the Financial crisis of 2007-2010, the company cancelled an order for 25 Boeing 787 Dreamliner's, worth at least $3.8bn at list price.

However, when a store cancelled an order for 2000 pairs of pajamas in 1990, in desperation, he took out a mail order advertisement in Cleo magazine.

In September 2010, AZAL cancelled an order for the remaining two Next-Generation 737s.

Officials of GPA and ILFC point out that they have never sold an order position, or canceled an order, unlike some airlines.

On 31 October 2006, Emirates cancelled an order for 20 Airbus A340-600 aircraft, ending a delay in the delivery of the aircraft pending enhancements.

The Israeli Army today canceled an order to demolish the three-room house of a Palestinian who was dead at the time that the military decided to punish him by tearing it down.

If the delivery time is long, the cost of waiting for the pipe may far outweigh the expense of canceling an order or even of ending up with unneeded pipe.

Ms. Reeder said none of her customers had asked for their money back, and Mr. Jelinek said he did not know of anyone who had canceled an order.

He pompously tries to get Mainwaring to leave the situation in the hands of the regular army, but is quick to cancel an order for mortar bombs under Mainwaring's persuasion.