So, because we know that spiraling health care costs are crushing families and dragging down the entire economy, and because we know it represents one of the fastest-growing parts of our budget, we've made a historic commitment to health care reform in this budget -- reform that brings us closer to the day when health care is affordable and accessible for every single American.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Los Angeles

They are also areas of the world where growth could rebound quite quickly, because households are not weighed down by the crushing debts typical in America and Europe.

ECONOMIST: The G20 in London

While crushing pills may ensure that they break down appropriately in the stomach, taking them with milk is not great idea, as milk may interfere with the absorption of some of the nutrients in a multivitamin such as iron.

CNN: Are vitamins and supplements effectively absorbed?

Anthony Raines, 51, was killed when a tree crashed down on his mobile home, crushing him on his bed, Bartow County Coroner Joel Guyton said.

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Rules on capital and liquidity known as Basel 3 are already crushing returns, and that in turn is bearing down on both pay and employment.

ECONOMIST: Bank regulation

Still, Indonesia's second Fund deal signed in January was criticized for largely ignoring the most pressing problems of rupiah free-fall and crushing foreign debt, which by then were dragging down banks and firms.

CNN: Dealing with Jakarta's Debt

Shinzo Abe succeeded Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister in September 2006 but stood down less than a year later after his party suffered a crushing defeat in upper house elections, citing ill health.

BBC: Japan ex-PM Shinzo Abe elected opposition leader

There is a lot of potential for real innovation here, but it takes special techniques to frack that innovative potential out of the social context that works with the crushing weight of two miles of bedrock to keep that kind of change down.

FORBES: Connect

Part of it is down to dramatic improvements in living standards in Italy from the 1960s - the shift from crushing poverty to growing affluence.

BBC: Why do the Italians live longer than us?