Ties were restored this summer, ending a policy that began with the closure of the US embassy in Havana in 1961.
Joggers are back in parks and wildlife is airborne once more: a hummingbird regularly looks in on The Economist's offices.The revival began with the closure of some of the city's heavy industry.
That led to four turbulent and expensive years that began with the closure of the News of the World as well as the arrest, trial and later acquittal of Rebekah Brooks, who is now back in charge at the publishing empire.
This investigation began with the closure of the Fort Lee approaches to the George Washington Bridge, but it quickly came to include the accusation that the Christie administration used Hurricane Sandy aid as a lever, in Hoboken, to obtain approval for favored developers' projects.
It began with the closure of automobile factories.
Cemex Pacific Holdings was awarded the contract for repaving the road on 20 January and construction began with the closure of the Riverside Drive intersection on 31 May.
In 2007 a downward spiral of Missoula's lumber industry began with the closure of a plywood plant in Bonner, followed by the closure of Bonner's sawmill the next year, and finally the closing of the Smurfit-Stone Container pulp mill in early 2010.
The US' regaining of its moral authority began with the announced closure of the secret prisons and the one year deadline for closing Guantanamo.
On Monday, the Christie administration, which has replied mostly apologetically to a controversy that began with the uproar over September's closure of lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge, swung back hard against Zimmer's account, starting with an indignant statement from Guadagno.
The closure clip procedure begins with the same proctological control, under general anaesthesia, as the advancement flap procedure, using a bivalve spacer or a Lone Star spacer.
