If the immigrant markets helping Cisneros through the credit crush represent one of the few bright spots in the present, they also will likely become even more important in the future--even if immigration slows down dramatically.

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' They pushed him aside and came down like a ton of bricks on the opposition in both neighborhoods, in an effort to assert state authority and crush the uprising through military means.

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The Hillsborough Independent Panel spent 18 months looking through more than 450, 000 pages of documents relating to the fatal crush at the Hillsborough stadium during Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final match against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.

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People are often killed in the crush as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims jostle their way through tunnels and over bridges to complete the various rituals that form the pilgrimage.

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Stratram would need to overcome a lot of challenges, particularly if squishy humans were among the things being transported into space: the track would need to be around 1, 000 miles long to avoid the kind of instant acceleration that could crush a human, and the train would need a low-pressure vacuum tube to travel through.

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