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Federal locations were also off limits for Hollywood. Film L.A., a nonprofit group that processes permits for producers of movies, TV shows and commercials, said sites including the Angeles National Forest and the Sepulveda Dam were placed on indefinite hold for filming.
About one-fifth of the classes at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., were scrapped, and science laboratories at the school were shut down as furloughs for civilian Defense Department employees took hold.
"It saddens me to think that this shutdown is affecting those who defend our country as they strive to succeed in entering the civilian world," said Sarah Conlon, 31, who heads the Transition Assistance Management program at a base in Italy.
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Grain traders in Chicago were preparing to cope without weekly U.S. Department of Agriculture data on export sales typically released on Thursdays. The data, covering sales the previous week, can move prices for crops like corn and wheat if demand is unexpectedly strong or weak.
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