11.   Jarvis had hit a ceiling at George Washington.

12.   Jack Olsen hit the ceiling.

13.   Miss Vicky, of course, hit the ceiling and went to the Star tabloid with a story about Tim bringing men up to his room.

14.   Now, the business is hitting a ceiling.

15.   Over the next decade Mead ran wire for the phone company by day, and working long nights in his basement, gradually hit the ceiling of conventional fly-tying.

16.   Pro-Israeli Americans hit the ceiling, and the report has been gathering dust at the State Department ever since.

17.   Schottenheimer hit the ceiling.

18.   Spent seven years with the Giants, hitting the ceiling with three consecutive seasons at Triple A without hitting the majors.

19.   The Dole camp is scrambling to find a strategy to keep going once he hits the ceiling.

20.   There is a sense he may have hit his ceiling.