Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't give him any easy points and he just started to hit the tin," Masland said. "Then I jumped all over him." Although the match against Cornell's Richard Loh was Masland's first match of the season, he said he felt "as if he hadn't missed any matches...
...production company, Brooksfilms, plans a public offering to raise cash for movie and TV projects. The company earned a mere $323,000 in fiscal 1989 and may lose money in 1990. Comedy is hot today, but Brooks may be running out of gas. He has had no major hit since Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in 1974, which reaped a total of more than $86 million in North America alone...
...beginning of this year, though, Herscu found himself in serious trouble. Hit by rising interest rates in Australia and declining retail sales in the U.S., the 61-year-old empire builder did not have enough cash to weather the slowdown. By August, Hooker's U.S. subsidiary filed for bankruptcy, and Herscu resigned as chief executive...
...raiders' troubles have hit Wall Street like a line of falling dominoes. Defaults by overburdened borrowers have crippled the junk-bond market, which finances many takeover deals. Only $11 billion of junk bonds were issued for mergers and acquisitions in the first nine months of 1989, in contrast to $26 billion during the same period a year ago. "Investors are becoming more sophisticated and cynical," says Kingman Penniman, a Vermont-based investment adviser. "They are no longer willing to finance every buyer's fantasy of using somebody else's money to leverage and strip a company and get rich...
...They asked me for 25 cents and then--boom. I got hit really hard, right across the face. They knocked me flat to the ground," he said...