Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Asked if he felt indebted to Russia for helping crush the Hungarian uprising in 1848, Austria's Prince Schwarzenberg replied, "Austria will astound the world with the magnitude of her ingratitude." So will Haiti...
...grows cold, they cry for their mothers. "You hold them and they don't want to let you go," says Julienne Mukeba, 24, a law student from Kinshasa who is volunteering at the camp. They arrive by the hundreds, some orphaned, some wrenched from their parents during the crush at the border crossing, some abandoned by the starving. Many are too young to tell their stories; the staff make up names. And many don't last long. "Our morgue is filled with babies," said Dr. Nimet Lalani. "We've lost them...
...most successful ventures is Mountasia Enterprises, based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Proprietors Scott and Juli Demerau started their first park in 1986 at an abandoned skateboard center in Mobile, Alabama. Within weeks the crush of visitors forced them to hire traffic police. In six months they had branched out to two more locations. Three years later things were going so well that they decided to get married -- on the miniature golf course at one of their Georgia fun centers. Since their debut, the Demeraus have expanded their original investment of $450,000 into an amusement empire that includes 26 parks...
Listening to Don Flow, 39, who owns nine import, Saturn and GM dealerships, mainly in the Southeast, raises the same question. "The old game," he says, "was let the buyers beware, crush 'em if you can, make as much as you could off everybody. Better to make a kill now than a friend for life. We basically also made our customers turn into s.o.b.s. If a really nice person walked in, they were a lay-down in front of us. The industry had a lot of fun with those techniques...
...Middle East didn't know what to think. No doubt, the PLO would have split up into several inimical factions upon the death of their charismatic, savvy and long-serving leader. One might think that the Israelis, taking advantage of disorder and divisiveness, would then have been able to crush the long-standing Palestinian menace once...