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Last opportunity. Last opportunity, I'm closing shop.

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Test it on one of the badly wounded.

Yes, Mrs. Johnson. Frank was in here last night, just before closing time.

Against this backdrop, the US government shutdown looks a little different.

I must get those shares on the market before they close.

What the squid has developed is a shutter that can open and close over this specialized light organ housing the bacteria.

The final lesson of the shutdown is that political systems of every kind benefit from the addition of women.

Because of that idle and inconvenient Hong mother and daughter, my life is also about to be shut down. Is the rent the problem now?

But Americans are in no mood to celebrate. Indeed, the second conclusion to be drawn from the US government shutdown is the virtual disappearance of American triumphalism.

Yes, it was a clear symptom of deep political dysfunction, stemming from the politicized demarcation of electoral districts and the distorting effects of America s campaign finance system. Nonetheless, it is noteworthy that the entire crisis played out according to constitutional rules.

So buried in signage are these structures, that it often takes a moment to distinguish the modern specially constructed taxpayer from its neighbor the small commercial building from an earlier century, whose upper floors have been sealed, and whose groundfloor space now functions as a taxpayer.