21.   After two years with the Cubs in Chicago, when Eckersley hit bottom both professionally and personally, his career was resurrected by La Russa and Duncan in Oakland.

22.   Almost from the moment it hit bottom, the Titanic began splitting off controversies, like calves from an iceberg.

23.   But after going into a tailspin last year, the stock has started to level off, a sign that investors think the company has hit bottom.

24.   But memories of hitting bottom last year linger.

25.   But Meyer at Janney Montgomery Scott said the proof of whether the Nasdaq has hit bottom will emerge Friday.

26.   But somewhere en route to hitting bottom in Lyon, or Bordeaux, or Saint-Etienne, maybe all three something extraordinary occurred.

27.   But some analysts believe the industry has hit bottom.

28.   But some analysts think that the company has hit the bottom of its trough and makes an attractive candidate for bottom fishers.

29.   But the central bank governor, Chaiyawat Wibulswasdi, in a separate assessment, said the economy could hit bottom in the third quarter.

30.   But the coachaholic had not hit bottom.