Only a few years earlier it had erupted so violently that thousands of people had been buried alive or sucked into sudden crevices.

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When her insurance company raised her rates, she had to give up her coverage, even though she had been paying thousands of dollars in premiums for years, because she had beaten cancer 11 years earlier.

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If all goes well, this should see the scheme - on which hundreds of thousands of current and past staff are dependent for their pensions - back to health four years earlier than planned.

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