11.   Some small ad hoc or pick-up dance groups had to cancel engagements at downtown theaters in what has been a generally hard time for the art.

12.   Three months ago, he canceled engagements because of what his doctors described as a sore throat.

13.   President Boris Yeltsin canceled engagements for a third day Wednesday and remained in bed with the flu, his office said.

14.   Both Yeltsin and his wife have had to cancel engagements over the next few days while they recover at their residence outside Moscow.

15.   But she has had to cancel those engagements until she recovers, her publicist said.

16.   But the president canceled the engagement on the advice of the police and sent a government minister instead, according to the Sunday Times newspaper.

17.   Diana has cancelled her engagements for today.

18.   Drnovsek canceled all engagements Friday, including a meeting with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, saying he felt weak.

19.   He canceled all engagements through next week, including trips to Germany and the Czech Republic.

20.   He canceled public engagements, except for a state dinner at which he made rambling remarks.