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.
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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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.
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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However, the shop closed in April 1998 when the building began to collapse because of old mine workings.
As a practical matter, Friedman doubted that employers in a competitive labor market would ever find it profitable to offer the closed shop option.
At the beginning of this year Home Depot closed its last shop in Beijing.
This was also to be the shop that, when Michael Jackson was in town, would be closed down for him to browse in private, and I remember glimpsing him wandering through the empty aisles of a ghost-like megastore.
American firms had closed their factories on this side of the border to set up shop in Mexico.
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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People in a Shropshire village have launched a bid to run their own community shop after the only local store closed down.
They were allowed to trade in the centre rent-free for six months from August, but Ms Rudd's shop has already closed and Ms Jones is following suit.
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