The National Football League is a closed shop, which has been dubbed "socialist capitalism".
This year Robertson Stephens , formerly part of FleetBoston (nyse: FBF - news - people ), closed shop.
One reason is Mexico's labour laws, and in particular the closed shop, whereby only one union is recognised in each company.
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Ohio is a "closed shop" state, which means workers can be forced to join a union whether they wish to or not.
Mr Farage said there was a "closed shop" mentality among the three main parties and much of the media about UKIP's rise.
Meantime, a clutch of poker websites closed shop or left the country.
They did so with one of the machinists' strikes for which Washington, where the union-friendly closed shop is legal, has an unfortunate reputation.
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As a practical matter, Friedman doubted that employers in a competitive labor market would ever find it profitable to offer the closed shop option.
Unions say that without a closed shop, which requires employees to join or pay dues anyway, the quality of jobs and income will swiftly deteriorate in Michigan.
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He was never shy about showing off his knowledge of movie history, but he never made it seem like a closed shop, open only to a favored few.
He was never shy about showing off his knowledge of movie history, but he also never made it seem like a closed shop, open only to a favored few.
The plight of the town was evident in the closed shop fronts, and John told me they had enormous problems recruiting doctors to set up practice in rural areas.
He believes the next 24 months will be crucial in determining if the cloud becomes an open area in which most of the value goes to customers or a closed shop where the vendors reap most of the benefit.
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Another 107 courses closed up shop in 2010 while only 46 opened for play.
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Time elapsed between the founding of Palm Computing and when HP closed up shop? 18 years.
Legislation to open up closed-shop professions, among them truckers, taxi-drivers, pharmacists and lawyers, needs fine-tuning.
Several business owners reported that they closed up shop early so their employees could attend Wednesday's rally.
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True closed-shop contracts are already prohibited by federal law, on the grounds that they violate the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of association.
He returned his clients' money three years ago and closed up shop.
Hundreds of daily news publications around the U.S. have closed up shop in the past several years and even Newsweek is up for sale.
Chief Executive Marissa Mayer once invested in a now-closed cake shop.
Gasoline prices in California have been so high recently that some gas station owners have closed up shop rather than lose money, according to published reports.
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Left-of-centre Greeks voted for Syriza both to punish Pasok for impoverishing the country and because Syriza opposes reforms that would open up closed-shop professions in a bid to make Greece more competitive.
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Even our nominal allies in a unifying Europe seem to be replacing national companies in this sector with consortiums and teaming arrangements that will be better able to vie for contracts worldwide and dominate an increasingly closed-shop European continent.
At the beginning of this year Home Depot closed its last shop in Beijing.
However, the shop closed in April 1998 when the building began to collapse because of old mine workings.
When his shop closed in 2001, after 65 years of business, it held a stock of 2m pieces of type.
Thieves broke into the Apple store behind the Paris Opera at around 21:00 (20:00 GMT) on Monday, three hours after the shop closed.
Merseyside-based staff contacted BBC Radio Merseyside saying their shop had closed as part of a wider shutdown.
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