1.   But the company later had to spend millions more to rescue that park after it ran into crippling financial problems.

2.   Gifford said she is applying for Social Security disability payments because of crippling back problems that forced her to retire from her job as a switchboard operator.

3.   Jones shrugged off the potentially crippling problem of getting teachers, administrators and politicians to sign on to the plan.

4.   Nigeria faces many crippling problems that have snuffed out past attempts at democracy.

5.   And Lineo Tsikoane, from Lesotho, discussed the crippling problem of AIDS.

6.   During the past month, violence and riots have erupted throughout Indonesia as the effects of higher food prices and crippling economic problems hit the poor.

7.   During the past month more than a dozen towns have been wracked by riots as crippling economic problems hit the poor.

8.   Foreign businessmen resident in Vietnam have been increasingly negative in recent months as some approved projects have stalled and others have encountered crippling problems.

9.   Scientists had brainstormed fixes for the potentially crippling problem that left the rover stuck aboard the lander with tantalizing martian rocks just out of reach.

10.   The Pittsburgh Penguins faced possible crippling financial problems and the New York Islanders, claiming unsafe conditions, tried to break their lease at the Nassau Coliseum.