1.   But supporters also put in hundreds of calls, and the governor signed the bill less than three hours after it hit his desk Friday.

2.   Clinton also has vetoed a ban on partial-birth abortions, a bill Bush said he would sign as soon as it hit his desk.

3.   He needed someone who had kept journals captivating enough to keep your head from hitting the desk in the archives room.

4.   Many of the interesting manuscripts that hit his desk combine memoir with history.

5.   Soon as the press packet hit my desk, I knew.

6.   Subscribers are said to prefer computer magazines that make a loud slap when they hit the desk.

7.   The canny archbishop had the money lined up even before the earthquake report hit his desk.

8.   The fact that Craven was working on a non-genre movie already has had an impact on the nature of some of the scripts and treatments that hit his desk.

9.   The legislature spent much of Sunday night passing scores of small-bore, local bills while waiting for the thick budget bills to hit their desks.

10.   The thing had just hit his desk.