Not only do we demand that someone who is suffering from psychological problems be confined in a room, but also they have to do that with a complete stranger (a therapist, counselor or psychiatrist) and usually sitting far away from a firmly shut door.
"These cubicles, which my reporters and editors use, were bought from a shut-down office of Kingfisher," he added, while doors were purchased from a Siemens branch that closed.
The first Karma that Consumer Reports tested simply died, and early Karma owners reported a host of problems ranging from a car shutting itself off while in motion to trouble with the electronic dashboard controls to, in two separate cases, cars catching fire.
The cocaine was packed in plastic, then wrapped in a layer of latex (from a glove), taped shut with a special kind of packaging tape, and then wrapped in an additional layer of plastic and latex.
The schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, retreated on Thursday from a plan to shut down a last-chance high school for students who have dropped out or have failed at traditional schools.
Miners from a Warwickshire colliery shut following a fire still do not know what benefits they will receive.
Unless you're a millionaire with a rolodex of connections, keeping a party from getting shut down is often tougher than getting your dealer to show up on time.
"It will take a lot more than a letter from a lawyer to shut me up," says Sodastream CEO Daniel Birnbaum.
The farthest-flung parts of the vast archipelago-state suffer from a tyranny of distance, shut off not only from world markets but also from the thriving Javanese economy around the capital, Jakarta.
Sounds a world away from being shut away to chew on a sandwich, doesn't it?
It was also the year that started with a sucker punch to the gut from a state that shut its doors to solar, setting off alarms of a potential copycat effect in other states.
