11.   Others chose to live abroad to escape the crushing poverty in Congo.

12.   Africans must take some blame for their own crushing poverty and stop expecting wealthy nations to throw money at the continent, the World Bank president said Monday.

13.   Bombay gave Clinton a glimpse of the crushing poverty in which hundreds of millions of Indians live.

14.   Many are handed over by their own families, driven to extremes by crushing poverty.

15.   Long-term success is still an open question in the formerly Marxist Mozambique because of its crushing poverty.

16.   President Ernesto Zedillo promised Thursday to maintain the tenuous cease-fire in southern Mexico and fight a war on the crushing poverty that inspired the rebellion.

17.   Using oil and gas revenue, Suharto bolstered development, secured food self-sufficiency and brought down crushing poverty.

18.   However, much of the wealth has not filtered down from the political and business elite to those who still endure crushing poverty.

19.   One of the most severe economic collapses in the former-Communist world has reduced a once-prosperous lifestyle to crushing poverty.