Officials feared the brackish storm water that poured into subway tunnels and onto tracks could corrode vulnerable signal and switching systems, adding to the time workers will need to reopen the MTA's full system, which ferries 8.5 million passengers on a typical workday.

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Analysts say another week of plunging stock markets has focused minds and the real test of this weekend's scramble by world leaders to shore up the international financial system will come once markets reopen again on Monday.

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The deal called for the two companies to reopen Fremont, re-hired United Auto Workers members, and run the plant under the Toyota Production System.

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He said he had moved all his company's money off the island years earlier out of fear that the banking system would eventually collapse, and he suspected it wouldn't be a pretty sight when banks reopen.

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