11.   Shelters in the hardest hit areas had filled up with so much food by late afternoon that the mayor of Moore pleaded with people to bring no more.

12.   The attention of firefighters shifted to preventing the outbreak of new fires around the innumerable leaking gas lines that remained in the hardest hit areas.

13.   The deputy prime minister, Mary Harney, has pledged to find replacement employers for the worst hit areas.

14.   The hardest hit areas were downtown and north and west Fort Worth and south Arlington, said spokeswoman Carol Peters.

15.   There are still hundreds of thousands of residents of the hardest hit areas living without electricity.

16.   Output is likely be the worst hit area of the economy, it said.

17.   Philippines President Joseph Estrada declared three provinces and a city in the worst hit area on the southern tip of Luzon island under a state of calamity.

18.   Police and paramilitary Rangers have been deployed in the hardest hit areas of central and west Karachi.

19.   Africa is traditionally the worst hit area.

20.   An Associated Press Television News cameraman traveled with Communist Party officials on their first flight over hard hit areas Tuesday.