31. Merchants said they would close shop to honor the dead. 32. By the thousands, settlers piled onto buses, leaving behind closed shops and padlocked schools. 33. InterEuropa SIM, the brokerage controlled by Banca del Gottardo, also closed shop last month. 34. VFW posts have closed shop in Bladenboro and Lake Waccamaw, Mr . Lief said. 35. As a result, hundreds of establishments are closing shops and cutting down on production. 36. 90 Firms Closed Shop in Jan .-Feb . 98 Alone : DOLE, BUSINESS DAILY 37. The loans were made through another financial institution that closed shop in October 1994. 38. It was more of a closed shop when I played. 39. After that, it became a closed shop for any other writers in the band. 40. But those figures do not account for businesspeople who close shop for the winter.