41.   Banks jacked up interest rates in hopes of avoiding too big a hit.

42.   Because they are less sensitive to interest-rate shifts, they managed to hold up last year, when most bond funds took big hits.

43.   Based on the early returns, the Navigator looks like a big hit.

44.   Big Country is a big hit in the big city.

45.   Big Smooth will put on the big hits, sparing no small fries.

46.   Big hit locally and nationally.

47.   Beukeboom would stay back, deliver the big hits and guard the back door.

48.   Big toy companies such as Mattel can be dependent on big hits.

49.   Bloxberg said she is happy with the results of home jewelry parties, and the bracelets have been a big hit at shows.

50.   Best of it was a big hit by Derien Hatcher, a tough, young defenseman who put Messier into the boards as if he were merely another advertisement.