• The locking-up part was easy enough: The scientists who weren't dead were mostly retired or working at universities.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Clumsy fliers spilling Diet Coke and coffee on plane floors and seats, causing "gunked-up" seat-locking mechanisms, hardly seem to constitute a root cause.

    CNN: How would you save American Airlines?

  • The Conservative leader has also voiced his support for changes in the law to give home-owners more discretion to use violence against intruders and called for the locking up of all asylum-seekers on arrival.

    ECONOMIST: Politics

  • Big carriers added to the problems by locking resellers into "ramp-up" contracts that charged them set prices for an increasing number of minutes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr Lukashenka started locking up, on flimsy-sounding fraud charges, a bunch of the country's industrial bosses.

    ECONOMIST: Belarus

  • Symyx moved quickly to secure patents, locking up the field of high-speed materials combination in the U.S. Dow and ExxonMobil dropped plans to develop their own tools when they bumped up against Symyx's patents.

    FORBES: Technology

  • He's been traveling the country for cash since effectively locking up the nomination six weeks ago -- but still seriously lags behind the Democrats' coffers.

    CNN: McCain's golden opportunity

  • Even if prison fails the tests of rehabilitation and deterrence, taking high-risk potential offenders out of circulation by locking them up appears at least to be an important way of protecting the public.

    ECONOMIST: Crime

  • Most of its profit now comes from constructing large solar power plants and selling them to debt-financed shell companies set up solely for the purpose of locking in a fixed yield based on electricity sales to utilities.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • So when you're looking at your fixed-income portfolio and thinking about putting money to work in this scenario where interest rates are going to be going up, you don't want to be locking in today these very low long-term yields.

    FORBES

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