71.   Pettitte asked about the chances of allowing more hits to Sweeney and Dye, but Torre was unimpressed, calling on Jeff Nelson.

72.   Several industry analysts predicted the company will be able to recover from the short-term hit to its image.

73.   Some of them punched hits to the opposite field.

74.   Since last autumn, it has taken no fewer than four solid hits to the midsection.

75.   Specialty apparel stores will probably take the biggest hit to the bottom line because of continuing weak sales, analysts said.

76.   Some analysts forecast this expense will involve a bigger hit to earnings than many managements anticipate, which will hurt the stock price.

77.   Such accounting allows for companies to make large investments known as capital expenditures without incurring huge hits to profits.

78.   That was more than three hours after Arnott took the hit to his head.

79.   The airlines took direct hits to their images.

80.   The biggest hit to TI came in the memory-chip business.