Passengers replaced freight as the main source of business, and one third of the network was closed by the Beeching Axe of the 1960s.

However, there was a large autographed poster-photo of Thomas just inside the entrance of The Regas until the business closed down in 2009.

As a consequence of this, numerous German production and distribution companies went out of business in the 1950s and 1960s and cinemas across the Federal Republic closed their doors ; the number of screens in West Germany almost halved between the beginning and the end of the decade.

The firm was eventually closed in 1909, but the ram business was continued by James R Easton.

Prohibiting a person from joining or forming a union, as well as forcing a person to do the same ( e. g. " closed shops " or " union shops ", see below ), whether by a government or by a business, is generally considered a human rights abuse.

After the plant closed, it was taken over by the government, which had been the guarantor of a $ 2 million loan to the business.

Another former extensive coach business was Mount Cook Landlines, which closed in the 1990s.

Close to the time that PepsiCo spun off its restaurant business in 1997, the Border Bell in Mountain View was closed and converted to a Taco Bell restaurant, which is still open as of 2012.

Following a series of unfortunate business decisions, the brewery closed in July 2003.

Unfortunately due to the recession and economic crash, a multitude of business and factories have closed down in Drogheda.

Rabinow's plant in Rockville, MD was closed in 1976, and CDC left the business.

Although the dockyard has long been closed and is now being redeveloped into a business and residential community as well as a museum featuring the famous submarine, HMS Ocelot, major naval buildings remain as the focus for a flourishing tourist industry.

People inside the Christchurch city centre were evacuated, and the city's central business district remained closed until 5 September.

At the same time, he closed a money-losing vending-machine business.

Trinity County did not have a chain store or restaurant until 1999, when Burger King, Movie Gallery ( closed ), Longs Drugs ( now CVS / pharmacy ), and Subway opened for business.

The remaining retail business, a grocery store and service station, closed in 1968.

Another former major employer in Crayford was Dussek Brothers ( part of Burmah-Castrol since the 1960s ) who operated their oils and waxes blending business on Thames Road from around 1928 until the site was bought by BP and subsequently closed down in 2001.

An economic panic in 1893 closed down the health spa and hotel, and quarry business along the tracks never developed sufficiently.

Other business like digital wireless chipsets, image sensors, PC I / O chipsets have also been recently closed down or sold off as National has reincarnated itself as a high performance analog semiconductor company.

Pelican Seafoods closed for business in July 2008.

After the school closed, a group of residents and business leaders formed the Booneville Education Association and acquired of land in the northwest part of town.

" The business closed in the 1970s, although portions of the structure remain.

The central retail district gradually closed down as the area's first shopping malls opened in the early 1970s, pulling business away from downtown.

The Indian Territory was not closed to outsiders, and several traders roamed through it on business.

The city's flagship department store, the four-story B. Peck & Co., closed after more than a century in business in 1982.

Abbreviator, plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators, were a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out in extenso by the scriptores.

Bacardi's transition into an international brand was due mostly to Schueg's " business genius "; Schueg " branded Cuba as the home of rum, and Bacardi as the king of rums " and expanded overseas, first to Mexico ( 1931 ), then to Puerto Rico ( 1936 ), under the brand name Ron Bacardi.

For example, a calendar provides a way to determine which days are religious or civil holidays, which days mark the beginning and end of business accounting periods, and which days have legal significance, such as the day taxes are due or a contract expires.

However, a 2005 study claimed the drop may have been due to an increase in the incorrect classification of many bankruptcies as " consumer cases " rather than " business cases ".

In recent years, the economy of Russia has begun to improve greatly, due to major investments and business development and also due to high prices of natural resources.

HP's offer was regarded by analysts to be overvaluing Compaq, due to Compaq's shaky financial performance in the past recent years ( there were rumors that it could run out of money in 12 months and be forced to cease business operations had it stayed independent ), as well as Compaq's own more conservative valuation of its assets.

Overall, it has been suggested that the purchase of Compaq was not a good move for HP, due to the narrow profit margins in the commoditized PC business, especially in light of IBM's 2005 announcement to sell its PC division to Lenovo.

The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Montreal ’ s La Presse, The Gazette, the Florida Times Union, the Indianapolis Star, the Providence Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the Windsor Star, The Economic Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications, run the comic in their business section rather than in the regular comics section, similar to the way in which Doonesbury is often carried in the editorial section due to its pointed commentary.

David owned a general store in Hope, Kansas, but the business failed due to economic conditions and the family became impoverished.

However, by 1985, several company business decisions, including an awkward new breakfast menu and loss in brand awareness due to fizzled marketing efforts, caused the company ’ s new president to urge Thomas back into a more active role with Wendy's.

Offering a dramatic increase in fuel efficiency, James Watt's design became synonymous with steam engines, due in no small part to his business partner, Matthew Boulton.

The Minister of Industry indicated that if due diligence were performed by the investors and the banks, the current laws governing business contracts in the UK offered sufficient protection for the public and the banks.

Shotguns are sometimes preferred for defending a home or business due to their wide impact area, multiple wound tracks ( when using buckshot ), shorter range, and reduced penetration of walls ( when using lighter shot ), which significantly reduces the likelihood of unintended harm, although the handgun is also common.

The weekend after Coleman's death a scheduled funeral was postponed and later canceled due to a dispute regarding the disposition of his estate and remains between Coleman's adoptive parents, Price, and former business associate Anna Gray.

Mixing of cultural groups did not occur much beyond governance and business due to two main reasons:

A prudent person takes due care to ensure that everything necessary is done to operate the business by sound business principles and in a legal ethical manner.

A prudent person is also diligent ( mindful, attentive, and ongoing ) in their due care of the business.

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

Lars von Trier's initiative spearheaded a European wave of female-friendly porn films from directors such as Anna Span, Erika Lust and Petra Joy, while von Trier's company Zentropa was forced to abandon the experiment due to pressure from English business partners.

A number of U. S. companies exited the Burma market even prior to the imposition of sanctions due to a worsening business climate and mounting criticism from human rights groups, consumers, and shareholders.

SNK decided to abandon the video game hardware business due to the rampant piracy of game-cartridges, which SNK believed was partially responsible for its bankruptcy in 2001.

Governments have had the tendency to " bail out " poorly run businesses, often due to the sensitivity of job losses, when economically, it may be better to let the business fold.

Eventually, BlueIraq's business model became economically unfeasible due to an escalation in anti-western violence primarily in the form of Improvised Explosive Devices and troop draw downs.