Larry wasn't crushed by the L. It was OK. "If you're from Brooklyn, you're used to this, " he said.

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He compares the situation to the aftermath of a hurricane, when the lights are still out and you can't tell who has been crushed and who is still standing, but you know it's bad.

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"I wasn't going to stay home and be crushed down by this, " he told the jury.

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Digital technology has already rocked the media and retailing industries, just as cotton mills crushed hand looms and the Model T put farriers out of work.

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The family friend, Ekeesha Green, tells Bolden that Marguida will be crushed if she's sent back home because she hasn't had her shots.

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Zdanivsky turned to boosting when his spine was crushed in a car accident in 1994, because he didn't want the injury to curb his passion for mountain climbing.

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