Sentence examples for close a dozen from inspiring English sources
The turnaround plan also calls for G.M. to close a dozen more plants and to cut thousands of salaried jobs.
Still, in New Jersey, where state officials are impaneling a commission to close a dozen or more hospitals, St. Barnabas finds itself in a far stronger financial position than many hospitals that were not suspected of skirting the law.
The company already plans to close a dozen of its US campuses under an agreement with the Education Department, which also placed Corinthian under an independent monitor, former federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
Corinthian, which has about 72,000 students, will make arrangements in the next six months to sell almost 100 schools in the United States and Canada, and it will close a dozen others, the company said in a statement released late Thursday.
Although GM had a loss of more than $3 billion for the first nine months of this year and recently announced a plan to cut 30,000 jobs and close a dozen facilities by 2008, a spokesman insisted the management change wasn't related to a series of financial problems at the automaker.
Residents had been pining for a supermarket; their last one closed a dozen years ago.
The company is closing a dozen plants in North America and axing 35,000 jobs as part of the new chief executive's turnaround programme.
The only category to buck the trend is restaurants, which has had many high-profile casualties in the last 12 months, including Jamie Oliver's chain of Italian restaurants, which racked up debts of £70m and closed a dozen locations.
AMF, which is also closing a dozen other alleys around the country, shut down Americana on Saturday night, two weeks before the end of the 36-week league season.
But Mr. Mapuri, the government minister who closed a dozen publications, said that they were, in effect, countering the government's effort to get Tanzanians to think soberly about sex.
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich closed a dozen historic sites and state parks last year to help fill a budget deficit.
