"We will increase, decrease or suspend lines based on a number of factors, including a customer's entire relationship with WaMu, their payment status and history, changes to their creditworthiness, and changes in the value of their property," said Sara Gaugl, a Washington Mutual spokeswoman.
In this case, the banks threatened to suspend lines of credit, the lifelines of many businesses.
During electricity slowdowns, the company has suspended manufacturing lines and moved workers overseeing them to other jobs, like manual packing.
He said that raised oysters cages suspended on lines would not only keep the shellfish out of harm's way from starfish and other predators, but the higher levels would also bring about warmer waters with more phytoplankton nutrients, which in turn would make the oysters grow to full size in less time.
The elongated, dramatically suspended melodic line, each note milked by Cooke for every drop of nuance, evokes generations of suffering and waiting.
Xinhua quoted an unidentified Shanghai government official as saying that the project had been "suspended in line with the arrangements of the municipal government".
Not to be deterred, the Royal Academy organised a competition for a "living bridge" in 1996, won by the French architect Antoine Grumbach with a lavish suspended garden, lined with hedges, trees and an exotic "topiary cafe".
In response, major exporters such as Toyota and Sony have moved quickly to adjust by reducing shifts, suspending factory lines and announcing thousands of job cuts over the past few months.
In one shanty we visited, the pegs suspending the lines were mounted on a pole that was hanging from springs.
