1.   Most shops have remained closed for the past three days.

2.   As a result, parts of the government will remain closed for at least another day.

3.   A gasoline-making unit at the St. Croix refinery, the second-largest in the Western Hemisphere, could remain closed for another one or two weeks.

4.   Also, two Mexican oil ports remained closed for a third day, raising concern of delayed exports to the U.S. market.

5.   But beaches in Greenwich and Stamford, Conn., remained closed for a fourth day, although health officials there suggested that they might permit swimming to resume Thursday.

6.   But the New York stock markets remained closed for a third day and will not open again until Monday.

7.   But US Airways was especially hard hit because Reagan Washington National Airport remained closed for more than three weeks.

8.   Churches remained closed for the second day in protest.

9.   Columbine will remain closed for an undetermined amount of time, Jefferson County school administrators said Wednesday.

10.   Elsewhere, prices were almost unchanged in Tokyo, while Hong Kong remained closed for a holiday.