Hostess had warned that it would need to shut down if production did not return to normal by yesterday evening.

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At the same time mayors and governors have been given new powers to shut down offending firms without wading through the normal mounds of red tape.

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Scans also show that the temporal lobe, which contains the hippocampus, and another brain region called the posterior cingulate use less glucose than a normal brain, suggesting they have shut down.

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As I noted a previous post, Western Digital late yesterday said that flooding in its factories has forced the company to shut down production, with little hope of returning to normal levels for at least the next few quarters.

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Normal life in northern Israel is virtually shut down.

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After the pipeline was shut down, Alyeska ordered all North Slope producers to scale back production to 5% of normal levels.

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