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Although the Store's shelves are becoming empty of essential food items as the market has stopped restocking, customers said there has been no attempt to notify them of the closing. Most were surprised when told of the shutdown, and expressed disappointment about having to make longer commutes for their grocery shopping...
...immediate ambition of the new front is to bring public pressure on the Palestinian negotiators and their P.L.O. backers to quit the talks. As an initial test of strength, the alliance called for a complete shutdown of businesses in the territories on Sept. 23. After five years of the intifadeh and countless strike calls, many Palestinian shopkeepers have begun to ignore the demands to close up. Fatah, Arafat's faction within the P.L.O., even instructed Palestinians to conduct business as usual on Sept. 23. Nonetheless, the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip shut down on the appointed day, proving that...
...prevent the derailment of a speeding bullet train. Such simple motion-detecting systems are now used throughout Japan and in parts of California to halt subway trains and nudge elevators to the nearest floor when ground motion exceeds a certain threshold. The Alaska pipeline is similarly equipped for instant shutdown...
...shutdown was triggered by a dispute between the machinists union and CSX Transportation, one of the nation's largest freight railroads, over wages and work conditions. Most other freight companies ceased operations, claiming that their many interconnections made it impossible for them to work without CSX. The unions countered that it was a lockout. The disagreement involves unions representing only about 20,000 workers, but 200,000 other rail workers were thrown out of work, and hundreds of thousands more were affected by the shutdown...
...FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, GOT OUT of the cable-television business after running up $235 million in losses over seven years. Shutdown costs -- including severance packages for the 400 employees of Monitor Television who were laid off -- will run another $45 million. While church officials search for a buyer for the cable operation, the Monitor Channel will broadcast reruns. The channel managed to attract about 4 million subscribers before its demise, a bantamweight entry in the cable ring compared with the likes of the Discovery Channel, which has upwards of 57 million homes...