1.   Clinton will need a lot more help if he is to leave the White House without a crushing legal debt.

2.   Despite crushing debt, endless layoffs and a scarcity of new jobs, families have kept spending.

3.   Facing a crushing debt, he desperately needed relief that only Washington could provide.

4.   Grupo Dina, the bus and truck manufacturer, also has been attempting to restructure a crushing debt load.

5.   He made ill-considered acquisitions, saddling Aeromexico with crushing debt.

6.   If their balance sheets are hobbled by such crushing debt loads, companies will no longer be able to tap debt markets for capital.

7.   In the debt swap, bondholders are accepting a delay in interest payments, giving the government some relief from its crushing debt burden.

8.   Pan Am collapsed four years ago amid high costs, a crushing debt load and intense competition.

9.   Perhaps the most complex task ahead for Indonesia is negotiating with lenders, chiefly in Japan and Europe, for more time to pay off a crushing debt.

10.   Struggling under a crushing debt load, Perelman put Revlon on the block.