The government and Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company) said it would take until next January to achieve a cold shut-down at the plant.

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Besides, does anybody seriously expect firms to open and shut plants to take advantage of a modest two-year tax break?

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As for the Mont Blanc tunnel, between France and Italy, which used to take 4, 000 trucks a day, it was shut after one caught fire in 1999, killing 39 people.

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As anyone who has experienced such a system knows, it does not take long to learn to shut off the lights and to avoid use of some of the more power-hungry appliances.

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Talk to a taxi driver and they will tell you they take a lot of people down to Dublin on Easter Saturday night because we shut so early.

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Support for customized experiences and branding from boot to shut down, so apps can take advantage of Windows with a customized look and feel from the first press of the power button.

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But company officials admit they are still using makeshift power systems as they struggle to decommission - or shut down - down the facility, a process expected to take decades.

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"If the federal government determines we are not doing enough to contain recreational marijuana within the state, it increases the likelihood the federal government will take action and potentially shut down the entire industry, " opponents of the task force wrote in a summary explaining their dissent.

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Sales at the famous Scitech Department Store soared to over 5 million RMB on May 1 (twice the normal daily take) with cars lined up a kilometer long during the wee hours of the morning because public transit had already shut down.

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