In March, for example, it announced it would shut down factories in North Carolina and Mississippi.
Moscow has ended its affair with Fidel Castro, announcing last October it would shut down the last Russian intelligence outpost, in Cuba.
Russia also said it would shut down its last plutonium-producing reactor.
After Microsoft announced it would shut down its Bing Cashback program, Amazon decided to aggressively pursue talks with Bing about taking over the shopping experience on Bing.
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And, Minnesota Power, a division of Allete, said this year that it would shut down two coal plants in the northern part of the state within two years.
Wells Fargo, for example, recently announced it would shut down its independent lending offices and merge that business back into its branch operations, cutting 3, 800 jobs in the process.
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Two months later, Dominion Resources announced that it would shut down its existing Kewaunee station in Wisconsin as a consequence of low gas prices and a lack of buyers.
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If the Postal Service were a real business, it would be shut down or sold off to a larger company that could restructure it and own it for strategic reasons.
The memo did warn that if the IRS become aware of the ploy, it would shut it down.
This is an improved physiological state which enables Jason's brain to work properly at times when it would normally shut down.
Then SunPower, the Silicon Valley solar panel manufacturer and power plant developer, said it would temporarily shut down half of its 12 photovoltaic production lines in the Philippines and lay off 900 workers.
If a Securities and Exchange Commission-registered money manager had committed similar fraud, it would have been shut down.
Hostess had warned that it would need to shut down if production did not return to normal by yesterday evening.
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On Tuesday, it announced it would restart a plutonium reactor it had shut down in 2007.
Michael Dell said he would shut it down and give the money back to shareholders.
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One manufacturer had to recall a heart defibrillator because its built-in safety feature would shut it down if it had not been serviced recently and it thought 2000 was 1900.
It would, for example, make it easier to shut down websites containing pirated material, or to sue pirates in foreign countries for damages.
It paid Groupon half of its revenues, drew in crowds, lost money, and would have shut down were it not for that loan.
If it would take concerted effort to shut down complex, international money-laundering operations, catching at least some of India's high-end tax dodgers should be ridiculously simple.
And certainly one thing that we have said that would jeopardize the recovery is if we allowed the government to shut down because of the economic uncertainty it would create.
Bosch said it would unwind the solar power venture and shut down manufacturing ingots, wafers, cells and modules in early 2014.
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"Business would have gone on - they would have shut down but it wasn't a long gap, a matter of days, " he said.
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The company said while operations were being shut down at Maltby it would retain the site in the hope of reactivating works when trading conditions improved.
Wang Boming was so worried that Caijing would be shut down if it went with the story that he did something he said he has never done again: he called a high-ranking Communist Party official for approval before publishing.
It controls each device individually, he says, meaning that a printer or scanner would shut down when idle, even if the PC to which it is attached is still being used.
Even assuming, as some Republican members of Congress have suggested, that it would be legal for the president to unilaterally shut down some government programs, there are serious practical problems.
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"We have asked the federal Department of Transportation to declare an imminent hazard which would effectively shut down the company until it could operate" safely, Berwick said Monday.
The move comes as House Republicans prepare to vote this week on a measure that would effectively shut down the board until it has permanent members confirmed by the Senate.
The government and Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company) said it would take until next January to achieve a cold shut-down at the plant.
It said it would also reconfigure its underground network so that smaller areas can be shut down when flooding is anticipated.
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