21.   State authorities closed all highways and roads into Jarrell to speed rescue operations.

22.   The authorities closed off many downtown streets to keep people from interfering with cleanup efforts.

23.   The authorities have closed down the Yuanhua company, and at some point last fall Lai disappeared, presumably into a secret life abroad.

24.   The municipal authorities on Saturday closed down the KFC outlet saying it was not maintaining sanitary conditions.

25.   The state authorities closed all highways and roads into the town, to speed rescue operations.

26.   The thrift collapsed in late-August after news reports that the authorities would close it down prompted depositors to make withdrawals en masse.

27.   The thrift collapsed in late-August after news reports that the authorities would close the indebted thrift prompted depositors to make a run on the thrift.

28.   Their study ended abruptly when the Yellowstone authorities closed the garbage dumps where the bears had been feeding.

29.   To stem the violence, the Kenyan authorities closed all four campuses of the University of Nairobi, as well as Jomo Kenyatta University, north of the capital.

30.   Tightening the vice, the Yugoslav authorities also closed the southern border, thus preventing Albanians fleeing to safety in Macedonia.