The 168-year-old News of the World shut down on Sunday after numerous accusations of phone hacking.
Karachi shut down on Monday for a day of mourning to honor the dead.
The school was shut down on March 18, but the epidemic was far from done.
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What this means is that IRS will effectively shut down on those days.
An investigation by the Palestinian Legislative Council into alleged corruption was shut down on Mr. Arafat's orders last year.
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"We shut down on our own, so that folks were not trading on stale quotes, " said Nasdaq spokesman Andy MacMillan.
Seven boiling water reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant and the neighbouring Fukushima Daini plant, both operated by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), shut down on Friday.
"We talked to one organization that found that their intensive care monitoring system would shut down on January 1, 2000, " said year 2000 consultant Joel Ackerman.
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It was shut down on Sunday 31 March and will be dismantled this month after some experiments are carried out on its operating system, said the laboratory.
Preston Smith International Airport in Lubbock was also closed, CNN affiliate KCBD reported, and Texas Tech University in Lubbock shut down on Monday because of the storm.
Megaupload was shut down on 19 January in a series of raids motivated by what the US government said was evidence of massive copyright infringement by the firm.
Spain's oldest nuclear power station - the Santa Maria de Garona plant - was shut down on Sunday because the Ebro river water became too hot to cool its reactor.
Greenville County School District in South Carolina shut down on Thursday to clean the buildings and busses when 18 students reported flu-like symptoms after a band trip to Disney World in Florida.
This soundtrack mojo will only be applied to the cinema release of a film, so if a player recognizes the pattern, it will know it's not playing a legit copy, and shut down on the double.
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In some areas where the constraints are especially acute like Oregon and Washington State, the lack of spare transmission capacity could force wind farms that have already been built to shut down on a rolling basis in the near future.
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Just getting all the parts to work together seems overwhelming indeed, it did overwhelm British Airways last month at Heathrow, outside London, when Terminal 5, an eight-billion-dollar structure that was supposed to transform Heathrow from a congested tangle into a place that would thrill passengers with the joy of air travel, all but shut down on its opening day, when a computerized baggage system malfunctioned.
It said there were reports there will be anything from informational picketing on the Golden Gate Bridge to efforts to shut down traffic on the bridge as well as all ferry services, though those possibilities have not been confirmed by the unions themselves.
Applications and games acquired from the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace service installed on Windows Mobile 6.x phones will continue to work after the service is shut-down on May 9, 2012.
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The computers shut down automatically on midnight New Year's Eve, causing overheating and damage.
Hundreds of schools remained closed across the UK, although numbers shut were down on the start of the week.
Washington shut down Strasburg on Sept. 7 last season to limit the workload on his surgically repaired arm, keeping him out of the NL playoffs.
The law places a government body, the Federal Registration Service, in charge of NGOs with the power to shut them down on the basis of vague guidelines.
Microsoft recommends you review the applications or games installed on your Windows Mobile 6.x phone and install any available updates in advance of the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace service shut-down on May 9, 2012.
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But it should be remembered that in 1933, President-elect Franklin Roosevelt refused to agree a bi-partisan deal with President Hoover to stave off the collapse of the entire US banking system, which shut down completely on the eve of his inauguration.
This week, Google announced that it will shut down Google Reader on July 1, 2013.
Too bad for the Mets, none of their pitchers could shut down Bryce Harper on Saturday.
It is not yet known what potential impact the shut down could have on petrol station prices.
Plus, federal agents shut down 313 websites on which counterfeit merchandise was hawked.
Which applications are critical, which can be temporarily shut down, and on which servers do each type of applications run?
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