61.   It will remain open with a skeleton staff.

62.   Many European missionaries had been expelled, leaving Arinze with a skeleton staff of young priests and nuns.

63.   No flights were canceled Sunday, as the airport called in a skeleton staff of managers to supervise incoming and outgoing flights, he said.

64.   Public utilities, state hospitals and banks operated on skeleton staffs and urban transportation came to a grinding halt.

65.   Some of the heaviest fighting occurred near the U.S. embassy in Bissau, which has been left with a skeleton staff, several of the evacuees said.

66.   Skeleton staffs were keeping a few emergency wards open on Friday.

67.   Ten correctional workers walking the picket line in the five-day-old civil service strike were brought in to help a skeleton staff at the jail.

68.   State refineries also operated on skeleton staff and scaled down their production.

69.   The blasts caused no injuries, as the hotel was closed for the season and the skeleton staff was evacuated when the bombs were discovered.

70.   The court ruling Thursday was the second to declare the strike illegal on the grounds that workers failed to appoint a skeleton staff to serve clients.