Factories were closed. Hundreds of thousands of people were out of work.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

And one day so I was eating my ice-cream because the archives were closed, and this woman came up, and she was probably about fity, or something like that, and she ordered ice-cream, and so this guy says, "Well, Madame whatever, Madame Dupuis, you remember that day don't you, when the Germans came back?" And she said, "Oh I sure do, they hung my husband from that pole."

有一天我正吃冰激凌呢,因为档案馆关了,有个女人过来,她大概有五十岁,她要了个冰激凌,然后这哥们说,"我也忘了什么夫人了,杜普斯夫人,你还记得那天吧,德国人来的那天",然后她说,"我当然记得,他们把我丈夫吊在那根柱子上"

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Average Joe asked the woman if all banks were closed on Saturday.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Twenty railroads were closed down.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

and,there was little food in the shops. Few children were at school and most government hospitals were closed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The capital was calm and businesses operated normally although some embassies were closed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Roads surrounding the Metropark Hotel in Wanchai district were closed Friday in the middle of the evening rush hour as the government vehicles prepared to transport nearly 300 people from the hotel.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

In fact, his hands were still closed into tight fists.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

In fact,his hands were still closed into tight fists.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

The hands were tightly closed.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

Security forces stepped up checkpoints and patrols across the country, strict curfews were enforced and borders and airports closed.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Schools remain closed in the parts of Port-au-Prince that were hardest hit by the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Airspace was closed Saturday in at least parts of more than a dozen countries - in some countries, the skies were emptied of commercial flights.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17