41.   Banks have been hardest hit by the EYCO default.

42.   BC made its hit by taking talented players out of New Jersey, another fertile recruiting field.

43.   Biotech stocks, which had been moving up in the last two weeks, were hard hit by profit-taking.

44.   Bennett missed two weeks because of a multitude of injuries after the hits by Walsh.

45.   Bledsoe lost his starting job to Brady after a hit by Jets linebacker Mo Lewis sheared a blood vessel in his chest in the second game of the season.

46.   Bledsoe was upended with a hard hit by Aeneas Williams and did a header into the turf.

47.   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.

48.   Boone scored on a hit by Javy Lopez, who tied a career high with four hits.

49.   Both banks were the hardest hit by concerns the recent surge in interest rates would push more companies to the brink of bankruptcy.

50.   Both markets tumbled yesterday on concern banks and companies with businesses in Southeast Asia may be hard hit by slowing growth and rising bad loans.