The first Cochabambinos to question the terms of the water privatization were not the small water coöperatives that faced expropriation and crushing bills but local professionals — mainly engineers and environmentalists — and a federation of peasant farmers who rely on irrigation.
The first Cochabambinos to question the terms of the water privatization were not the small water coöperatives that faced expropriation and crushing bills but local professionals mainly engineers and environmentalists—and a federation of peasant farmers who rely on irrigation.
Paying them all would have meant a crushing tax bill under the N.B.A.'s new system.
In an effort to avoid a crushing tax bill that Mr. Cope said would claim 68 percent of the proceeds, the family will sell the Huntington and its two other hotel properties -- La Playa in Carmel and an interest in the Galleria Park Hotel in the Financial District -- only bundled within a corporate entity.
A crushing medical bill can cause money problems not just for a cash-strapped patient but for his or her entire family.
The latest reclamation of a debtor from a crushing medical bill was featured in an article this past weekend published by the French news agency Agence France-Presse -- the oldest such journalist operation in the world -- in an article titled "Former Occupy Wall Street Activists Start 'Rolling Jubilee' to buy up American's Personal Debt".
There were tales of paralyzing student loan and credit card debts and crushing medical bills, as well as pleas from single people and young families hoping to do better than live paycheck to paycheck.
One of the Barbis' most notable lobbying victories came in 2010 when they worked with Chris Heyde and AWI to help campaign for passage of the Anti-Crush Bill (HR5566), which outlawed horrible animal cruelty fetish videos that had previously been protected by the first amendment.
Crushing phone bills, bad timing, terrifying silences, apocalyptic quarrels….
And he would support what every other advanced country has, a universal health care system, so that nobody need worry about untreated illness or crushing medical bills.
The Allies concentrated on rebuilding Germany, not wanting to once again impose crushing reparations bills as they did after World War I, an important factor, they believed, in bringing about World War II.
