Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Economic Adjustment reported that barracks and bunkers had been transformed into industrial parks, colleges, vocational schools and airports. Where the 100 bases had once provided 93,000 civilian jobs, there were now 138,000 jobs -- a statistic Congressmen may want to have handy in December, when the base hit list is made public...
...cruiser plying the islands in the Saronic Gulf, was shattered by grenade blasts and a fusillade of automatic-weapon fire. For about five minutes, several assailants, possibly as many as four, raked the deck of the 688-ton vessel. They then escaped, apparently by jumping overboard. The hit squad left nine people dead and 47 injured...
...industry as a whole is far from going broke. Overall profits are expected to rise about 4% this year, to $4.9 billion. But some companies are being hit much harder than others. Among those hurting are General Dynamics (the No. 2 defense supplier, with Government contract awards of $7 billion in fiscal 1987), Grumman (No. 10 with $3.4 billion) and Northrop (No. 23 with $1.1 billion...
...even Europe (ironic, huh?), as if movin' would make them into different people who maybe weren't so self-destructive. Th' members of th' family also dream that things would be better if they either sold their fallow avocado ranch or if they fixed it up. It doesn't hit 'em til th' end that their fantasies are impossible, that they're doomed...
...cases, a figure that is all the more impressive in view of his reputation for taking "impossible" cases. His trick is to combine meticulous research with show-biz instincts. In the 1940s he sued the concessionaire in a New York stadium on behalf of a man hit by a soda bottle thrown from the stands. The vendor argued that nothing could have been done to prevent the injury. Throughout the trial, Lipsig kept on his desk a mysterious brown bag that tantalized the jurors. Not until his final argument did he open the bag to dramatically take from...