11.   Businesses are closed on the dusty, quiet downtown streets, juke joints are boarded up and some of the poorest people in the country live here.

12.   Carr Gottstein Foods Co. took a charge to close two businesses, resulting in a second-quarter loss.

13.   City officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the mayor is bypassing the usual method for closing a business illegally operating in a residential area.

14.   Closing a business is often the best option for creditors, but it can have a high human cost.

15.   Cordiant lost several top clients such as British Airways and Mars and closed businesses such as its Minneapolis-based Campbell Mithun Esty agency.

16.   Corey Roberts, manager of Zeiger Crane Rental Inc. in West Palm Beach, said the business was closed Tuesday and Wednesday because construction projects stopped.

17.   Debts were restructured, businesses closed and staff laid off.

18.   Devine, a practicing Catholic, will keep his seafood business closed, as it is all Sundays.

19.   Earnings have been under pressure, as the company restructured to close unprofitable businesses and cut expenses.

20.   Even when all the businesses are closed, Desert Passage will remain open for visitors to walk through.