The Bassett factory closings came not long after many of the region's textile plants had closed for the same reasons.
In the US senate, Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia who is commerce committee chairman, reported that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the George Washington bridge, had responded to a series of questions he posed about the closings.
A rash of closings of McDonald's restaurants across the country, supposedly for "sanitary" reasons, is another sign of how even the most seemingly uncontroversial businesses can get caught up in the current mood.Mr Putin distrusts what he does not control, and seeks constantly to bring any source of power and influence under the aegis of the state.
Because of plant closings and other economic dislocations, many residents detest the trade arrangements that enable the low prices at Wal-Marts and Dollar Generals, low prices that make their lifestyle possible.
A clear line separates successful closings from those that flounder.Places that act quickly do best.
Every week brings fresh reports of factory closings, particularly in the industrial belt around the Pearl River delta in southern China.
It has a European style, with street closings, café tables and chairs, and you are much more likely to hear Hindi, Mandarin, French or Japanese spoken by tourists as you are a fine Brooklyn accent.
On the Johnson blog a couple of years ago, I called algorithmic courtesy "a pretty cold way of expressing a warm emotion", and that goes for the closings of e-mails.My poor friend's problem was the opposite: she tried, with genuine good will, to express some human emotion to someone she was going to hire for a hard and sweaty task.
Its rival, Ford, will announce its own slate of job cuts and plant closings this month.This pain will be felt most intensely in the upper mid-west especially mid-west especiallyin surrounding states such as Ohio and Indiana.
Given the circumstances, the show was admirably run, living up to its billing as an "inclusive" inauguration at least for the swearing-in, not for the impossible-to-get-into official inaugural balls later on.There was still plenty to be annoyed about unannounced subway station closings, officials who didn't know where to direct visitors, security checkpoints that were impossibly clogged.
Growth, however, peaked in January and revenues have declined in the past two quarters.Factory closings in southern China and the broader downturn in regional business have hit discretionary income.
