Normally, companies do not make bonus payments until after they close the books for a year — which Merrill did not do until Dec. 31.
Kona, Hawaii can return to its normal Island ways, as the 2009 Ford Ironman World Championships has closed the books for another year.
We're here today to write the last chapter in the history of wartime rape and to close the book once and for all on humanity's tolerance for such inhumanity".
"The best way to describe her is that she's holding her own," one of the surgeons, Michael LeMole, told CBS. "We don't close the book on recovery for years so it'll take as long as it takes.
Once you close the book, fair warning, for you're going to think back, wondering what happened and how it happened, and slowly see how every word, every scene and even the title, was whispering the truth to you all along!
It should have been a difficult question: Joshua Oppenheimer's searing post-mortem of Indonesia's 1960s anti-communist purge was such a gutsy feat of cinematic catharsis that one might have expected him to close the book on the subject for a while.
Zap2It appreciated the touching goodbye as well, but found themselves wondering if perhaps this was a good place to close the book on "Army Wives" for good.
You close the book feeling there is hope for a better future – and there is not much that is more comforting than that.
"These agreements allow us to close the book on a challenging period for our company, and focus entirely on our business and meeting our customers' needs," said Vitro's chairman, Adrián G. Sada.
Perhaps hoping to close the book on the saga once and for all, President Obama's Press Secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that the events in Benghazi had been looked at "exhaustively".
