"You can have a crush that you're crushing on, but you can't crush your crush, " Mr. Hayden says.

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So why didn't Vietnam crush the illegal strikes?

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If they can't use the law to crush competitors, tequileros will have to make money the old-fashioned way, by making better tequila.

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It isn't necessary to mention the crush you have on your co-worker.

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He added that the railways had prepared for the huge crowds, but there still weren't enough trains to handle the massive crush of passengers.

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The reasons behind this unlikely crush weren't made clear.

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If these efforts to rid my vision of its dark scrim pay off (I admit, they don't always), I greet the sidewalk crush with a wide expanse in my chest and a buoyant gait.

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When I met Swinton at an art gallery opening not long after the film was released (I interviewed her boyfriend, the painter Sandro Kopp), I wanted to hug her (though I didn't dare -- her white suit was too awesome to crush).

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Unfortunately, those same users are still reporting that they haven't seen an improvement in the picture quality relating to the deep black "blue-crush" issue.

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"One old friend told me he had a huge crush on me in kindergarten, and it tore him apart when we weren't put in the same class in first grade, " she said.

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Hi-Crush, which has been selling sand to customers for only a year, doesn't have much of a track record to show investors.

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