None of it gave me that instant gratification I felt upon seeing the shuttered Apple Online Store re-open a few hours after a real breakthrough product announcement.

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When I learned that the Clots had shuttered the display, my first thought was relief.

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Everywhere I go, there are once-shuttered factories just waiting to whir back to life in burgeoning industries.

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I've seen it in the shuttered windows of once booming factories and the vacant storefronts on once busy Main Streets.

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In fact, the most lucrative firm I met with was (predictably) shuttered a year later when its owners were criminally indicted.

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On visits to rural schools in Africa and India I was often taken to computer labs in locked and shuttered rooms with rows of idle computers protected under plastic covers.

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That's what led me to work in the shadow of a shuttered steel plant on the South Side of Chicago when I was a community organizer.

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"Never have I seen anything like this, " said Watertown resident Tony Paulino, as businesses shuttered and streets closed, leaving many to wonder how long the manhunt would drag on.

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