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Over recent months, the closing-down offers at Borders have affected sales figures at Barnes & Noble, though the retailer is expected to benefit overall from the demise of Borders.
As Its Final Stores Close, We Ask: What Happened To Borders? 2011
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I asked if I could interview him about his own story and I felt the closing-down: he explained that he is unable to tell me what was done to him, since his case is ongoing, and, I presumed, because of the issues of classification.
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I asked if I could interview him about his own story and I felt the closing-down: he explained that he is unable to tell me what was done to him, since his case is ongoing, and, I presumed, because of the issues of classification.
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I asked if I could interview him about his own story and I felt the closing-down: he explained that he is unable to tell me what was done to him, since his case is ongoing, and, I presumed, because of the issues of classification.
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In what we still call the "High Street" we walked past a shuttered Woolworths, and other empty and abandoned premises, and posters advertising closing-down sales, and several charity shops and the closed Police Station.
Archive 2009-04-01 Joanna Bogle 2009
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Though it had a bit of a pacifist political agenda, Omega managed to stay open through World War I, but finally had its closing-down sale in 1919.
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In what we still call the "High Street" we walked past a shuttered Woolworths, and other empty and abandoned premises, and posters advertising closing-down sales, and several charity shops and the closed Police Station.
Tradition dictates... Joanna Bogle 2009
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Reuters A street cleaner walks past a shop advertising a closing-down sale in London.
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Of course, the United States is not vulnerable to the violent, total closing-down of the system that followed Mussolini's march on Rome or Hitler's roundup of political prisoners.
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This, in conjunction with the panic deliberately induced by the New York bankers, caused the closing-down of silver mines, the shutting of factories, the crashing of banks, widespread ruin-and, of course, the repeal of the offending Act.
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