1.   Particularly hard hit would be relatives of immigrants legally in the United States.

2.   Worst hit will be the South, where people with high mortgages have been most affected by the recession.

3.   Hardest hit are the farmers.

4.   Hardest hit are small businessmen and the unemployed who get sucked into a string of debt, partly as a result of easy credit, added Mr Milburn.

5.   Almost every hit they got was a bleeder or a blooper.

6.   Although Napster has been broadly used by music lovers, the hardest hit may be college students who have used campus high-speed Internet connections to download thousands of songs.

7.   And hardest hit will be the smaller local manufacturers, such as Weston Electronics Ltd., that cannot compete on price or quality.

8.   And his hits have been important in many ways for the Indians this season.

9.   And hardest hit will be the smaller local manufacturers that cannot compete on price or quality.

10.   And in the Broadway production now at the Belasco Theater, those hits are palpable indeed.