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

12.   Two decades ago, the banks in those countries were reeling under a similar combination of crushing debt and capital flight.

13.   While many professionals finance a full-time return to school with a bank loan, part-time studies can help avoid a crushing post-graduate debt load.

14.   Who, for instance, would pay for the costly long-term power contracts or the crushing debt from building nuclear power plants that many utilities are saddled with?

15.   A crushing debt burden, higher interest rates, an exodus of entrepreneurs and professionals.

16.   Among lingering worries for Japan are the bad loan problem weighing down the banking sector and the crushing public debt.

17.   Argentina racked up its crushing debt through years of overspending and heavy borrowing.

18.   Boeing expressed interest Tuesday in a partnership with cash-strapped Ghana Airways, whose crushing debts are threatening to ground the national carrier.

19.   Faced with crushing debts, the country made sharp cutbacks in its social service funding.

20.   He contended that Japanese tax laws are encouraging banks to write off bad loans without letting real estate developers get out from their crushing debt burden.