1.   And will recently employed recipients be thrown out of work the next time the economy hits the skids?

2.   As for his former team, he heartily endorsed former assistant Don Chaney and said he was not completely stunned when the team hit the skids.

3.   A decade later, confidence was already falling before stocks hit the skids.

4.   But the team has hit the skids after being second or third in points for a good portion of the first half of the year.

5.   But the tough road back for a small high-tech stock that hit the skids is another market fact of life.

6.   But without strong federal support, many others will be hitting the skids.

7.   Continuing a trend that began this year, retail sales hit the skids in June as a slowing economy put consumers in a cautious spending mood.

8.   First, the team hits the skids, putting its playoff hopes in doubt.

9.   Given that about three-quarters of early venture investments typically fail, Galbraith suspects that within a year or so, many of these stocks will have hit the skids.

10.   He said that he hit the skids after his second marriage ended, leaving him depressed.