21.   And everywhere, the Stars and Stripes fluttered, many already at half mast, above government offices devoid of workers.

22.   And it repeats the common warning to drivers here not to stop in case of an accident but to head directly to the nearest police or government office.

23.   And many workers around the trade center and the courts and government offices of lower Manhattan expressed fears that another attack could happen there.

24.   And it said that life continued normally in Jaffna, with government offices and schools functioning.

25.   And the failure to enact other routine appropriations bills has twice shuttered government offices.

26.   And some employees had an aversion to going near any government office.

27.   And unlike government offices, firstgov.gov never closes, he said.

28.   And then there are dozens of pictures scanned from books about Tito that once lay in nearly every government office.

29.   And then, outside an Israeli government office in East Jerusalem, a Palestinian gunman killed one security guard and severely wounded another.

30.   Angry strikers protested outside government offices and congress almost daily, some demanding the resignations of Finance Minister Luis Raul Matos Azocar and Labor Minister Juan Nepomuceno Garrido.