Europe's own housing hotspots are cooling, and some of its banks have been sideswiped by America's subprime ills.

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McCain sideswiped Romney's credentials as a successful business leader while answering a question about who would best run the nation.

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Deep scrape marks were easily visible where one train sideswiped the other.

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One eastbound train derailed, coming to rest in the path of a westbound train that sideswiped it, damaging several cars and tearing up rails.

WSJ: Rail Corridor Hit With Major Outage

The finding by the safety board isn't a definitive determination of the cause of last week's accident, in which one Metro-North train derailed and was then sideswiped by another train, injuring more than 70 people.

WSJ: Probe of Metro-North Derailment in Connecticut Focuses on Rail

Customer Sharon Kaye told the San Jose Mercury News the driver sideswiped her car as he made several runs around the parking lot before driving between poles at the entrance and crashing into the store.

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