The economic interests involved were enormous and the complexity of the issue finally boiled down to a very simple question: shutting down the nuclear power plants yes or no.
Summer fuel shortages compounded the problem, with power cuts shutting down workshops struggling to complete repairs against ever-tighter schedules.
There was also, however, a countertrend that might be described as the bureaucratization of knowledge-that is, the shutting away of information in a government bureau instead of making it public.
We ought to be shutting those down.
A central limitation of this understanding of decentralization is its exclusive concentration on financial dimensions of decentralization, shutting out other important elements within a decentralized structure of authority.
The anti-democratic actions include: shutting down the media which are critical of government, dismissing judges who rule against government, banning political parties, and suspending parliament and cancelling the next elections.
In shutting down a plan, the plan sponsor must purchase annuities for the accrued benefits of all plan participants.
Because we are making the change without shutting down the system, we have to consider the existing unprocessed events before switching to the new format.
