The experience in Paris was dampened only by the fact that Yale's administration, angry that West had been arrested in a campus protest, canceled his leave and required him to teach a full load.

In all, the administration has now canceled 10 contracts under which the nonprofit agency would have monitored welfare recipients and provided employment and educational services and that together are worth roughly $60 million.

The administration canceled that arrangement in January, on the ground that the group had advertised its meetings there.

The administration canceled a public hearing scheduled for Tuesday that would have set up a formal bidding process for the prison food contract.

The administration has subsequently canceled nearly a dozen other contracts with the group and ordered all city agencies not to grant new contracts to it until a Federal investigation of the welfare contracts is completed.

But Mr. Lupolianski's administration recently canceled the school's license to educate children beyond the sixth grade, leaving this year's sixth graders without a school for next year.

However, in May 2010, following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the administration cancelled the only scheduled Atlantic lease sale, for an area offshore Virginia.

O'Connell's administration canceled classes on May 6, 1970, the day after the Kent State shootings, and declared a day of mourning.

The decision resulted in unflattering articles in several newspapers, and in May, the administration canceled the new contracts under pressure.

Then the administration cancelled an agreement requiring automobile companies to make the leap to more fuel-efficient vehicles.