31.   The peace accords agency has left a skeleton staff in Banja Luka, while closing five other offices.

32.   The shutdown is almost complete, with schools, hospitals, government offices and businesses limping along with skeleton staffs or not at all.

33.   The securities firm maintains a skeleton staff to deal with lawsuits and other unfinished business.

34.   They found shuttered doors or skeleton supervisory staff at offices in Jersey City, Newark, Trenton, Elizabeth and Paterson and in smaller cities and suburban communities.

35.   They told employees only a skeleton staff would remain for a short time to wind down the operations.

36.   This skeleton staff would continue to accept corporate filings, the SEC spokeswoman said.

37.   This skeleton staff would continue to accept corporate filings, but the agency would only review and approve time-sensitive filings.

38.   Those that did seemed to be operating with a skeleton staff, their employees unable to get to work.

39.   Tosco may try to operate the plants using a skeleton staff of management and other non-union personnel, Gheit said.

40.   U.S. securities firms were expected to be open with skeleton staff.