• The retailer is squashing small businesses and, thus, the small-town life the magazine champions.

    FORBES: Schmaltz Appeal

  • First things first - squashing CO2 back into a molecule packed with energy is not a new idea.

    BBC: Petrol from air: Will it make a difference?

  • Insurers say that the huge effort lavished on bug-squashing was not wasted.

    ECONOMIST: Who��s to pay for Y2K?

  • Paris sent in fresh reinforcements, later squashing the Mexicans, and in two years installed an Austrian archduke, Maximilian Hapsburg, as puppet Emperor of Mexico.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: When the Mexican Army defeated the French

  • The possibility of the council squashing the commission has been increased by Germany's objection to the commission's recommendation that it should get an early warning.

    ECONOMIST: Europe's stability pact

  • This coming year, I will be focusing on squashing that fear.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Last year a cartoon in La Reforma, a center-right newspaper, depicted an oversize Slim in a boxing ring, splayed on his back and squashing a tiny opponent.

    FORBES: Mexico's Richest Man

  • They compress a pellet of a type of hydrogen found in seawater by a factor of about 40, 000, like squashing a basketball to the size of a pea.

    FORBES: A Nuclear Hybrid

  • Unfortunately for Mr Wilkins, others in his party have been less apologetic notably John Graham Altman, an assemblyman from Charleston who was instrumental in squashing the original domestic-violence bill.

    ECONOMIST: Southern politics

  • But President Obama has designs on squashing natural gas, too.

    FORBES: President Obama's Three-Front War On Energy

  • For many people here, the bailout seems aimed at squashing one vast delusion on the basis of another, even vaster one: that a country like Cyprus could ever have an economy like Germany's.

    WSJ: Raymond Zhong: Reflections on the Revolution in Cyprus

  • Jordan's King Abdullah has sometimes let Brotherhood members sit in cabinet and at other times moved against them, occasionally by squashing the vital social and charitable activities on which much of their popularity rests.

    ECONOMIST: Not just coercion, sham democracy too

  • Yet according to Gregory Rodriguez, of the Pepperdine Institute for Public Policy, the most appropriate historical comparison is not with the confrontational politics of the 1960s, which sprang out of the squashing of racial minorities.

    ECONOMIST: A lesson in how to count

  • One veteran bond-fund manager says that many U.S. institutions are buying Treasurys "only because they are betting they'll be able to liquidate them at an even higher price" as the Fed keeps squashing interest rates lower.

    WSJ: The Intelligent Investor: Why Bondholders Should Be Worried

  • The Germans, ever fearful that they may be asked to pick up the bill for the profligacy of others, are already squashing any talk of issuing joint euro-area bonds to relieve some of the pressure on national governments.

    ECONOMIST: The euro

  • More damaging still to the Tory cause was the squashing of any hope that last summer's ballot of party members, in which they voted overwhelmingly to stay out of the euro for at least two parliaments, would silence the pro-euro Tories in Parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Not quite across the Rubicon

  • Generalised subsidies are being replaced with carefully directed ones: for instance, some 1.5m of the poorest families can get a free tortilla ration by swiping cards through an electronic reader at their local tortilleria, where previously the height of technology was the gas-powered tortilla-squashing machine.

    ECONOMIST: Mexico

  • Even as changing times broadened the sport's base of paying customers from America's Eastern Seaboard, across North America and on to the other side of the Pacific, moving the business ahead has always been about one smart, overriding strategy--keeping the cartel going by squashing the competition in its tracks.

    FORBES: Major League Baseball Goes Global

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