The airport, its runway buckled, is also shut to everything but helicopters.
The Dounreay nuclear site in Caithness was shut to all but essential staff.
The Vietnam War was fought until a clear majority of U.S. citizens hated it so much that they not only wanted it to end but shut their minds to Vietnam for a generation.
Vladimir Putin has all but shut the door to big western oil firms with his recent clumsy effort to create a state-run oil giant in Russia.
Mr. Romney's political operation seemed to all but shut down and relocate to the mountains of Utah.
"On the other hand, Japan is content to all but shut out people from overseas".
It has expanded into Asia and Europe, but shut an ill-fated attempt to conquer the US.
Not every investor will use the data, of course, but shutting off access to it would be a mistake.
But shutting down the government to make that point ended up costing the Republicans Virginia.
But shutting the tabloid is unlikely to stop the flow of bad news coming from investigations now under way.
