That, however, did not stop its net losses from mounting as it accelerated the depreciation of its outdated Nextel network and incurred other one-time expenses related to the shutdown.
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Compared to this time last year, regulators had shutdown 98 banks hurt by the economic crisis.
Perhaps, they wonder, a government shutdown could be made to play better next time.
But while a partial government shutdown would still close federal tourist attractions, this time it would affect less than half as many federal workers as the last time.
By the time they tried to make the correction, the shutdown had already started.
It now goes to the Senate, where leaders of both parties said they expect changes to the House plan by Democrats, leading to further negotiations in an effort to avoid a partial government shutdown when current government funding authorization expires in three weeks' time.
"I'm hopeful that we won't have to deal with the threat of a government shutdown while we're dealing with the sequester at the same time, " he said, referring to the new cuts by their Washington-speak name.
The studio splintered in 1998, and was shutdown in 2003 by its parent company, Interplay, though by this time most of its remaining members had moved on to found Obsidian Entertainment.
In 1996, when President Clinton vetoed a set of fiscal reforms from the Newt Gingrich-led Republican Congress, the resultant government shutdown forced Republicans into a free-spending crouch for the remainder of their time in the majority.
The typical alert allows under half a minute to shutdown operations and dash for safety, but the agency claims this crucial shred of time can be enough to scurry away from any treacherous hazards nearby.
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All computer interfaces with Knight will be shutdown with no new orders, both by phone or electronic, being accepted at this time.
At the same time, LG and other electronics makers are headed into the teeth of a consumer shutdown in much of the world.
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