As a cost-cutting measure, the firm required all employees to take vacation time from Christmas through New Year's Day, employees there said, the first such mandatory shutdown of the office in memory.
With the mandatory shutdown of small-capacity and low-efficiency thermal generating units in 2006 2010, most of the currently running thermal generating units are large-capacity and highly efficient units.
But if we could add back in the Obama initiatives — for instance, the mandatory shutdown of all old coal-fired power plants, which are rules Mr. Trump wants to kill — we'd get to 23percentt, which is much closer.
But because of heightened local opposition to nuclear power after the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station nearly a year ago, communities across Japan that host reactors have blocked them from restarting after mandatory shutdowns required every year for maintenance.
Judge Cooper's order also outlined safeguards, which include a monitoring session one hour before a military exercise to detect the presence of marine mammals, the use of trained aerial lookouts throughout exercises and a mandatory sonar shutdown when mammals are spotted within 2,200 yards of training maneuvers.
Companies say they are considering other cost cuts, like mandatory holiday shutdowns, salary freezes or cuts, four-day workweeks and reductions of contributions to retirement and health care plans.
Charles Geisst, a Wall Street historian at Manhattan College, describes September 2008 as the most momentous financial turmoil since president Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared a mandatory four-day banking shutdown in March 1933 to halt a panic-driven run on deposits.
-- Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern seaboard Monday, forcing mandatory evacuations, mass transit shutdowns and public school closings from Washington, D.C. to Boston, Mass.
A shutdown would not affect "mandatory" spending — meaning money for Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps, tax credits and a smattering of other programs.
According to the report, the government could rely on both mandatory and discretionary funding during a shutdown to continue with implementation, and agencies could continue working despite lacking appropriations, under exceptions to the Antideficiency Act.
As Sarah Kliff has explained, the key parts of Obamacare rely on mandatory spending that isn't affected by a shutdown.
