21.   Factories were closing.

22.   Factories close to move overseas, chasing cheap wages.

23.   Four hundred people lost their jobs when the factory closed three years ago.

24.   Four years ago, Ottawa, like many small Midwestern towns, was decaying as factories closed and unemployment rose.

25.   Gradually, as the factories closed and dairying grew less profitable, the use of the land changed as well.

26.   If a factory closes, who does the worker get mad at?

27.   If he leaves, Sheffer said, the factory will close and his employees will have no work.

28.   Inventories are rising as many factories close or reduce operations for annual maintenance.

29.   It also said it does not have future products planned for two plants, in Ohio and Mexico, raising the likelihood that the factories will eventually close.

30.   Like many others in this small town in eastern Germany, Erika Tauber had been out of work since the textile factory here closed with the fall of communism.