• Then we shut it down, cover our tracks, and move to Bermuda.

    NEWYORKER: Great Experiment

  • Since then it has shut half of its 1, 200 stores and laid off more than half of its 16, 000 employees.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • He was even able to activate a second speaker by drawing a line to it, then "cutting" the line to shut it off.

    ENGADGET

  • In the same way, they hibernate by going into torpor, they can do the same thing on a very short-term basis through the summer - if it is wet and windy and there is no food then they just shut down their body temperature and they just sleep it out.

    BBC: Yorkshire bat colonies 'cohabit all year'

  • The museum itself reopened symbolically for a day in July 2003 to show that some of its riches remained - but it had remained shut since then.

    BBC: Iraq's National Museum reopened

  • They put out a tool to let us do anything and then shut us down when we get too good with it?

    FORBES: Activision Takes Action Against World of Starcraft Mod Creators

  • "If they can't implement the procedures by the deadline, then the airline should be shut down until they can do it, " he said.

    CNN: Mineta to outline baggage security guidelines

  • Then a further 165 jobs were lost last year when it shut its Lampeter plant.

    BBC: M&S supplier axes 300 jobs

  • Apple 's new iPhone must be something really special, then, because it has an incredible power to make people shut up.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In desperation I stepped over to the closet, with its two sliding doors, then rolled one door open, plunged inside, pushed it shut.

    NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

  • Apple in the past several months bought and then shut down online music service Lala.com, prompting widespread speculation it might also soon launch a new cloud-based version of its iTunes music store.

    WSJ: Google Plans Music Service Tied to Search Engine

  • Under their balcony a bus stopped, brakes wheezing, its doors slapped open, then shut, engine roaring and sending up a plume of noxious smoke as it rumbled away.

    NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

  • Congress nearly shut the door on trial lawyers a year ago, but it then suddenly dropped the ball and hasn't picked it up since.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Then SunPower, the Silicon Valley solar panel manufacturer and power plant developer, said it would temporarily shut down half of its 12 photovoltaic production lines in the Philippines and lay off 900 workers.

    FORBES: Green Tech's Terrible Tuesday

  • Or to put it another way, if Italy is shut out of markets - which is not impossible - then the EFSF in its current form will not have even enough money to tide Italy over, let alone keep alive any other eurozone governments that run into difficulties.

    BBC: Southern European banks need most capital

  • And then there was the lack of electrical power -- the quakes cracked a hydroelectric power plant, forcing authorities to shut it down, making even a nearby airport unusable until portable generators could go online.

    CNN: Chinese rescuers impeded by earthquake damage

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