11.   For one last time, Jerry Quarry took the blows and refused to fall.

12.   He took the blow, on the chin, like a man meeting a missile.

13.   He took a blow to the head as well.

14.   Inside the gym, there was the sound of fighters punching bags, the scrape of boxing shoes on canvas and the snorting of fighters throwing and taking blows.

15.   Investor confidence took another blow when a Sulzer Medica board member resigned from the company earlier this month, less than two months after he was appointed.

16.   It also should tell you why Vecchione did the right thing when he jumped in the ring and forced Lane to disqualify McNeeley rather than take another blow.

17.   It left itself with too much debt, though, and it took a blow when the currency crisis hit Thailand earlier this year.

18.   Later, when Camby neglected to box out Keenan Jourdon, he took another blow.

19.   Letterman is now perceived as an East Coast snob whose mystique took several blows from his Oscar-hosting fiasco.

20.   Soccer in America would take another blow to the midsection with a dismal U.S. performance.