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Russia has run current-account surpluses for many years, yet it has also been badly hit by an outflow of capital and a credit freeze.

Many parts of the country had been badly hit by heavy rains , winds and high waves this year, meteorologists said .

A man in his 70s was also pulled from a collapsed building in Sendai, a port town badly hit by the double disaster.

Sponges, corals and brachiopods (a once-widespread group that look a bit like bivalve molluscs) were particularly badly hit.

The warnings have come from a range of industries, but companies tied to shrinking global trade are particularly badly hit.

Badly hit was the northwestern region of Galicia, where several roads were cut off and schools forced to cancel classes.

Among Needham's destinations in his Chevrolet truck was Dujiangyan, a city badly hit by the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province.

And both the United States and Japan have been badly hit by the global economic crisis.

Dubai rode the wave of easy credit during the boom years generating phenomenal growth but was badly hit by the global credit crisis.

Global Investment House of Kuwait is badly hit too, and Shuaa Capital, Dubai's biggest investment bank, has had a torrid time.

The city was so badly hit that it was decided to bring in bulldozers to knocked down whatever was left standing.

The US and European markets have been badly hit, while there is still demand from China for granite blocks.

BMW in particular has been badly hit by losses on returned cars and has cut the number of lease contracts it writes by a third.

The concern over bonds infected the stock market where Italian banks, leading holders of their country's debt, were particularly badly hit.

Like other forms of manufacturing, however, this one is cyclical: turbine-makers were badly hit by the recent global downturn.

That could jeopardise her hopes of making a comeback in Ohio, which has been badly hit by the housing crisis and industrial decline.

Russia's reputation abroad, however, could be badly hit by the release of foreign-policy secrets.

Financial assets have been badly hit, with cash, jewellery, livestock and other assets buried under collapsed houses.

But that was before central-southern Chile was badly hit by an earthquake on February 27th.

Small to medium-sized businesses, their core client base, are also being badly hit by the economic downturn.

The most recent World Cup ski circuit was badly hit by lack of snow, with several races in the Alps - even at high altitudes - called off.

Toy firms have been particularly badly hit, by safety scares and product recalls.

Knut and his brother steered the family firm through the 1920s, when Sweden was badly hit by a global recession.

From the farming community in modern civilized society to the industrial restructuring, China Folk Art has been badly hit.

Its Dubai sales, which began three years ago, have been badly hit by the recession.

European refiners, which rely heavily on Libya's light, sweet crude, were particularly badly hit.

The province, which produces nearly a third of mainland exports, has been badly hit by the global slump.

Sugar cane and cotton, two other big commodities, have been badly hit.

There were particular fears that tourism, a big earner of foreign exchange, would be badly hit.

The home-improvement market has been badly hit by the subprime-mortgage meltdown.

Wealth was badly hit, with inflation-adjusted residential real estate prices falling by about 50 per cent since their peak.

Nizhny Novgorod has been particularly badly hit by the deadly wildfires that have swept across European Russia in the past 10 days.

But there are so many bodies in this badly-hit city that the local authorities are overwhelmed. Mrs.

The reputation of sumo wrestling has been badly hit by a series of scandals this year.

Not every country was badly hit. FDI into China, where economic growth remained robust, declined by only 2. 6%.

But the smaller, more open Asian economies were badly hit.

Thirty of the country's 77 provinces have been badly hit and more than 250 people have died, local media reported.

Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, has been badly hit by natural disasters in the past few years.

He was badly hit by the band failure.

Lehman Brothers, which was particularly badly hit by "toxic" mortgage debt, filed for bankruptcy last month.

'The Qiang were badly hit by the earthquake, but they can survive that, ' Mr. Dong says.

700m (12, 467ft) Huayhuasi, Peru: Llama and alpaca farmers have been badly hit by recurring water shortages.

Graduates were particularly badly hit in North America, where employment dropped from just under 90 per cent in 2007 to 77 per cent in 2009.

The job market has been badly hit by the recession.

First, Hong Kong has been as badly hit as anywhere by low-cost competition from mainland China.

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