According to the Wall Street Journal, Dish Network announced on Friday that it would be closing one third of all remaining Blockbuster retail locations in the first half of the year.
Among the worst performers in October was Gap Inc., which announced last month it would close one-fifth of its Gap brand stores in the United States by the end of 2013.
The New York Times is reporting that Google is preparing lay off 20percentt of the staff, or 4,000 jobs, and close one-third of its 94 worldwide offices — notifications of which will start to get sent out to employees beginning today (Monday), TechCrunch has learned. .
The cuts forced 82 family planning clinics to close, one-third of which were Planned Parenthood clinics, and left Texas' women's health program able to serve less than half as many women as it had previously served.
Last year, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia closed one-fifth of its elementary schools.
In return, Daiei eliminated 20percentt of its work force and closed one-third of its stores.
And Barnes and Noble, America's number one, has spent the past year putting in place a 10-year plan that includes closing one-third of its stores.
But he says his customers are fond of making reservations when restaurants are closed: One-third of OpenTable's reservations are made between 10 p.m. and 10 a.m.
For low-income children, every month of additional schooling closes one-tenth of the gap between them and more advantaged students.
Certainly, it is fair to say that Eurotunnel probably did not expect to be facing a legal battle so long after the fire in September 2008, which led to it closing one-sixth of the tunnel for about five months.
Mr. MacGregor — who joined the museum in 2002, when it was about $7 million in debt and had closed one-third of its galleries — has since helped restore it to an attraction that receives more than six million visitors a year.
