Damaged and blocked rail lines more or less shut down morning commuter services from the suburbs to Manhattan, which had itself emerged mostly intact from the storm.
THE country has returned to normal after the two-day strike that more or less shut it down at the beginning of the month.
After government concerns and tighter airport checks more or less shut down that route, and fighting escalated in Libya, land crossings became much more popular.
The carmakers' finance arms, usually good earners in bad times, have more or less shut up shop.That Cerberus should be desperately seeking an exit from its ill-judged foray into the car business is understandable.
Last August, the city more or less shut down for a week, after (admittedly unprecedented) rainfall revealed how little had been done to maintain its ageing storm-drains and sewers.
Well, just ask Estonia, one of the most internet-dependent countries on the planet, which in 2007 was more or less shut down for two weeks by a sustained attack on its network infrastructure.
Upon questioning the guests present (Ms Hardy was unfortunately not there at that particular moment) as to whether they knew who "zis Neek is", and getting blank looks for replies, she more or less shut the door in his face.
"If the Swiss vote yes to this initiative," said Ruud Lubbers, the United Nations high commissioner, "the country will have more or less shut its doors to people fleeing persecution, even people who have escaped atrocities, massacres or torture".
That Wal-Mart Stores spent $25 million on lobbying in the United States over the past four years on such issues as whether India would open its own retail markets to the global behemoth should surprise no one, much less shut down India's parliament, as it did Tuesday.
