1.   Californians have been particularly hard hit.

2.   Campesinos are hard hit by the economic crisis and government forces have deliberately destroyed the livelihood of many subsistence farming families.

3.   Many of the old takeover favourites were also hard hit as speculators moved to take their profits.

4.   New Jersey and New York will be especially hard hit.

5.   Particularly hard hit would be relatives of immigrants legally in the United States.

6.   Coal had been particularly hard hit by the continuing switch to gas as a fuel by the recently privatized electricity supply industry.

7.   The purges changed the character of the party and the well-educated were especially hard hit.

8.   Firms and institutions which are otherwise financially sound could be hard hit by a protracted run of debt defaults.

9.   As unemployment climbed above three million for the first time in six years, the latest figures showed our region has been hard hit by the recession.