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The device has since been rolled out in several new countries and seems to be a hit with consumers everywhere.

Tummelson throws these games into a growing market and reprints at much larger volumes whenever he has a hit on his hands.

Starbucks has taken quite a hit this year, even while trying to adjust with the times.

The answer was that I had a feeling it would be a hit.

Until recently, he says, he had much of his savings in a bond fund, and after corporate bonds took a hit, he moved the money into CDs.

Additionally, Hardy got Rubin to fire off a bit of a hit on Google's other OS, Chrome.

Small-shirts a hit to their body, they blink of an eye one by one into a swan, flew up into the sky and disappeared in the distance.

He got her to water down the idea that private bondholders must take a hit whenever countries get into trouble.

When two women war out a ham bowel each additional, the front door of this berth suddenly drive a hit to open.

If you do not know them, just thought it was a hit at the hotel a group of punks at the dinner.

"We are only able to transfer a portion of our cost increases to our end customers, so we do take a hit on our margin, " he said.

But so far, the scheme hasn't been a hit: most banks say they don't expect to see a drastic improvement in loan demand.

Movie studios and exhibitors are desperate for a hit, with 2008 attendance down more than 6 percent compared with a year ago.

Do not know if it is not hit, a hit really wonderful!

He was such a hit that Hollywood studios immediately started fighting each other to cast him in superhero franchises.

It was a hit and run. But the police already have him in custody.

Investors are now getting a sense of how much a hit to earnings the currency's weakness could mean.

The company's stock also took a hit when news broke earlier this month that it had hired law firm Jones Day for restructuring advice.

A hit like this at GM was almost unthinkable just a few years ago.

Counting the money over the tax, the tax and the escrow money they would no longer receive, that would be a hit of roughly $10 million.

So much of a national issue that Obama's popularity took a hit, especially among white voters, according to a poll released Thursday.

She came out on the cover of Time magazine, had a hit sit-com, now hosts a daily talk show and is one of the judges on American Idol.

Web page printing has usually been a hit or miss affair and large pages can be cut off at the bottom or the sides.

Kelly was a hit, especially with the soon-to-be menswear superstar, Josh. -She was being wheeled by, and. . . I just froze.

By chance, see a TV series, the plot to let me have a hit of the heart feeling.

But he said that Cuil's new approach to ranking pages and presenting results could prove to be a hit with some users.

Boeing hopes the distinctive look of the plane, as well as its aerodynamics, will make it a hit with carriers.

if you give in and call your Mona for a hit, the pain will go back to lurking just beneath the surface of your consciousness.

Bryant was a hit with Lakers fans long before he reached this skill level, back when he was just a dazzling rookie.

Michael Bloomberg has been such a hit as mayor that normally irascible New Yorkers have elected him to a third term.

If I'd attacked him with a frying pan, I'd a hit him in the head.

On a normal day, this would be a hit of the exhibit, as would the pistol made to look like a lipstick and a lethal umbrella.

But this minimalist festive alternative is proving to be something of a hit, according to its sellers John Lewis.

and asked the person who lived there to call 911 to report that there had been a hit-and-run.

"Take a pic of your penis, tape it to your neighbor's front door, knock, run. . " My suggestion, it seems, was a hit in Carlton's mind.

I had been the star of a hit musical revue on the Paris stage for a year.

On a national scale, the U. S. economy may be taking a hit, but it has far from collapsed.

Wenzel said Miami has also taken a bit of a hit because of the housing bubble bursting and troubles in the real estate market.

Album never managed to be a hit in DM markets and the deal with the record company began to shatter aswell.

The guys have fond memories of Dan getting a hit and using his bat as a crutch to make his way to first base.

But her outgoing style made her a hit in the West, and she was her husband's closest confidante on political affairs.

However, what if once having launched the service, it turned out to be a hit with users, and traffic begins to overwhelm our server?

But that perception of strength began to take a hit following the bankruptcy-court filing in September of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

He refuses to be told what to sing, even when managers promise their songs will be a hit. Instead, he sings his heart out for his fans.

In recent years , housing problems have been a hit topic in the country which ranging from house prices to house places .

Because a good amount of these jobs were private sector the US dollar firmed a bit and the precious metals have taken a hit.

A similar fate also befell three paintings by Kees van Dongen, who has been such a hit with Russian buyers over the past two years.

By doing so, she lost 2 years of compensation and also took a hit in her retirement benefits.

Ordinary Chinese, however, have been more preoccupied with a hit-and-run accident that caused the death of a two-year-old girl.

A pop song that was a hit seven years before you were born is part of the history you need to be told about.

But it has found a hit in incumbent Prime Minister Taro Aso.

The advent of the knowledge-based economy means that the new wave of industrial revolution has been a hit.

Then the stranger gave him such a hit on the head that blood flowed.

The new despot orders a hit squad to take out his nephew, the proper heir to the throne, Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes).

Relatives of a man arrested after a hit-and-run rampage through the streets of San Francisco described him as a troubled man.

A group of singers who really were a hit- tune factory ; an old house that served as an illegal drug factory .

Hence, some spells can be only used in some particular situations in the form of a hit combo.

Relatives of a man arrested after a hit-and-run rampage through the streets of San Francisco described him as a trouble man.

Christianity was a hit with the locals and made them much happier to take on funky new words like ' martyr', ' bishop' and 'font'.

As students become increasingly open to sex education, such courses are proving to be a hit in many parts of China.

By now nearly everyone has seen or heard the story of a killer Great White Shark in Jaws, a hit novel turned into a blockbuster movie.

If you want to be a hit, you are going to step up your current knowledge so that you can take your dancing to a new level.

Unlike the iPod, it hasn't been a hit with consumers, partly because the store was hard to use and had a very limited selection.

Troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi have staged a hit-and-run attack on an oil refinery in Libya, killing at least 16 guards.

Such stocks took a hit at the start of this year, sowing fears that the bull market could be in trouble.

A pop song that was a hit seven years after you were born is wrapped up in all kinds of memories and associations.

The movie opened at No. 5 in the U. S. but went on to gross just $20 million in this country, although it was a hit worldwide.

With her divorce finalized and a hit TV series behind her, actress begins new chapter in career.

A bank of its size could comfortably absorb such a hit. But Deutsche may face further headaches.

In situations where there's little time to aim, double-barreled blasts increase the chances of a hit. One of the most lethal weapons around.

With a declining economy, low consumer confidence, and rising inflation, retailers across the island are taking a hit.

H& M's margins have taken a hit this year from record-high cotton prices and a strong Swedish krona.

TAKAHASHI: When i was in kindergarten, i used to draw robots from anime shows on TV. They were quite a hit with my friends.

You're in our hearts, as you well know. . . We'll think of you, wherever you go. You'll be a hit in San Francisco! Thanks.

Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

Regardless of its financial outlook, Disney English appears to be a hit with members of China's burgeoning middle class.

fame n. : The writer's third novel was a hit and his fame soon spread all over the world.

Yes, I know this interrupts the flow of your code, but slick error-handling and recovery really makes your application a hit with the users.

Everybody took a hit; even Hillary's office would be smaller than Barbara Bush's, though she would take on greater responsibilities.

Flyers go after the thrill of the kill, with lasers simulating a hit, and sending your enemy into a smoky, spiral defeat.

I thought it would take on the 18 to 24-year-old market, so my biggest surprise is that it has been a hit with the older generation, too.

The economy is still in a recession and for the second consecutive year, Mom is taking a hit on Mother's Day.

Two years after Network appeared in the movie theaters, Johnny Paycheck had a hit with the country song "Take This Job and Shove It. "

Taxpayers are going to take a hit. How big a hit? Until that's decided, the crisis will go on, and the cost will grow.

It wasn't immediately clear how the transaction would be structured to avoid the insurance fund taking a hit.

I had learned again that I could take a hit and that there's more than one way to stand against aggression.

As Labour takes a hit, observers were watching to see whether fringe parties would gain strength.

However, it is in the Berlin Zoo in 2007 after the public debut became a hit, with its own "blog" , often appeared in a television program.

Naval aircraft employed torpedoes in the Great War but the chances of a hit on a fast-maneuvering warship were slim.

The problem for companies is working out which of these products will become a hit and which will gather dust on a shelf.

The "G'Day" commercials were a hit partly because of their freshness: Mr Hogan was an unknown face; the outback story struck a chord.

Another is Google's Android operating system, on which most of HTC's smartphones are now based, which has proved a hit among consumers.

The concert was quite a hit in London.

And as I must have been shown hundreds of thousands of them altogether, a hit rate of zero seems rather on the low side.

To attack the base, we have to enter the edge of the ravine by flying at a low altitude, and then make a hit-and-breakaway-attack.

Outings with Bruni in Egypt in 2008, when he was still courting her, proved to be a hit with the press.

Qualys maintains a hit list of the most popular vulnerabilities to help firms work out which ones they should patch first.

paul mccartney has not written a hit song in years , and now spends much of his time painting.

The software was a hit, first with his classes in Sweden, then worldwide after a video of his 2006 TED lecture was posted online.

The idea is such a hit, that even Charlie Sheen is going as Charlie Sheen.

So a bank holding Greek debt would immediately take a hit to its reserves if the market price went down.

X-ray telescopes can detect this gas, but finding targets has been a hit-or-miss proposition.

If I go up hoping to get a hit, "he continued, " then I probably do not have a prayer of getting a hit.

Chinese-culture-based couture can be tricky, and even when a designer has a hit, keeping the crowds coming back for more can be a challenge.

Presumably nobody in the audience at the Broadway Theater, where this latest stage adaptation of a hit movie opened on Wednesday night.

If he gets too focused on not liking the way he looks, a guy's self-esteem can take a hit and his confidence can slide.

Estimating the impact of a hit to exports on consumption relies as much on judgment as on hard data.

Even the best ballplayers usually get a hit only three out of ten times at bat.

My sister just wrote a book that I know is going to be a hit.

Whether covered in chocolate, blended into milkshakes, or served in cones, ice cream is always a hit.

In the last twelve months, they've had three major concerts and made a hit CD.

Joshua Reynolds (1775), already president of the Royal Academy of Arts, seems worried whether the Uffizi will take to him (he was a hit).

In order to identify a scent, the chemicals are mixed into a sugary liquid that bees are rewarded with, laced with a hit of caffeine.

But international tobacco companies are still making smokers pay up for a hit.

Manpower is undoubtedly going to take a hit now; this has been clear since the 20% fiscal cutback was made public in the autumn.

Find someone you trust to watch it with you. If you're both laughing, then it's most likely a hit!

Keeping the information between the two tools synchronized was a hit or miss proposition.

Transportation networks needed to move parts and vehicles also took a hit from which recovery may be difficult.

Videos of the one-off toy proved such a hit online that its Japanese creator, Neurowear, is considering mass production.

Other style or form of music maybe will be a hit, but it is not Chinese people final choice.

The comparator then compares the read data to the respective item of search data and provides a hit indication in the event of a match.

To be declared a "HIT" , a target must be seen to have at least2pieces broken from it.

His tiny amount of health can be nearly depleted with a hit from a rocket or grenade.

Whether displaying urban graffiti or colorful patchwork, these clothes are sure to be a hit.

A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by.

Other Music's annual sales exceed $1 million, and Madell hopes the company's online music store will be a hit with customers nationwide.

It's like being a really fast runner but being unwilling to take a hit or unable to block.

Jaws was a hit of vast proportions, inspiring executives to go for the home run instead of the base hit .

If a film does not attract an audience, its run in the theater will be cut short and another will take its place, hoping to be a hit.

Assign scores (the number of points for a hit) to a given test.

A hit to its central eye can knock a buzz droid out of commission.

Under the Hawthorn Tree is adapted from the love story of the same name which has been a hit on the internet since 2007.

Ireland's new government is talking about forcing the senior bondholders of its bust banks to take a hit.

On August 10th Mr Putin got behind the controls of a plane dropping 12 tonnes of water on two fires. "Was that a hit? "

Next came The Mask, a role that seemed tailor-made for him and was a hit with audiences.

That done, the aircraft flies over again, this time detonating each mine with a hit from a directed energy beam.

The area is also close enough to make a dash to Florence or Rome should you crave a hit of big city life.

But as American military superiority has increased, its reputation and ability to persuade others appear to have taken a hit.

In the last inning, the pitcher quickly retired every batter. Not even one player got a hit.

" This was almost a hit song, but the melody was too close to " I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Last November, a drunk driver was sentenced to death for a hit-and-run accident that killed two people and injured seven others.

And for anybody working in the Valley and perhaps here too, I don't know, business definitely took a hit.

Especially when the price of that biggest asset, the family home, has taken a hit during this recession.

RONALD REAGAN once described inflation as being "as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit-man" .

From Paris to Budapest, these urban beaches have been quite a hit with the locals.

Two brothers who allegedly hired a hit man to kill Rodrigo Rosenberg, a lawyer in Guatemala, handed themselves in to authorities.

Analysts said Waitrose's margins would have to take a hit to roll out the plans.

The teachers did not have time to plan their courses for the new examination, and so their teaching was a hit- or -miss affair.

The show emphasizes family, friendship and respect, making it a hit not only with kids but also with adults.

Of course, this is a small game in life may not be such a hit, unless you are a wealthy.

As managed bees take a hit, so too do wild pollinators, whose work pollinating U. S. crops is worth about three billion dollars annually.

They believe it was a hit list of those targeted for killing.

Security was tight for the president's visit because the police had been informed that a hit man had been hired to assassinate him.

Downtown development took a hit in the recession but is now coming back.

Not every Asian company has been a hit with U. S. investors.

But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident.

The software has been a hit on mobile devices, in part because it is both free and can be adapted by programmers.

The Facebook-anchored game is decidedly low-tech and undeniably a hit with the U. S. public.

Originally it demanded that bondholders should take a hit whenever a country received European rescue funds.

Since she is likely to spend many hours at her desk, a unique desk accessory would be a hit.

Our new product has been a hit in several countries.

The 24-year-old midfielder now has two French caps to his name and strong tackling stats make him a hit with Comolli.

I know what you mean. Sightseeing can be such a hit-or-miss thing.

Maybe you're committed to continuing to spend on value creating projects, even if reported profits take a hit -- that's great.

In Inner Mongolia, a Han Chinese truck driver kills a local herdsman in a hit-and-run accident, and ethnic unrest flares for days.

Provides coverage if injured by an uninsured motorist or a hit -and- run driver .

But I think they do not become a hit today.

Inflation could take a hit from several directions, especially, it seems, from lower crude prices.

When graduate school entrance exam scores are released every year at this time, many romantic relationships take a hit.

Here is a tip from a writer: If you hate what you do, your self-worth is likely to take a hit.

If one small business goes under with months of bills unpaid, all the firms in the supply chain will take a hit.

It's a hit-or-miss affair, but events of the past few weeks have provided the writers with a rich seam of source material.

I can't help but wonder if the NHL's bosses haven't had a hit to the head themselves.

Royce: Look, I'm going to take a hit and I'm going to figure out what to do.

This was a hit-and-run accident. The driver had fled the scene.

This song is going to be a hit.

He argued the new drink rapidly became a hit among the tribes of Western Europe, which then contributed to the French's modern love of wine.

Look, I'm going to take a hit first and I'm going to figure out what to do.

The more durable product was a hit with workers in the west, and Strauss' investment in copper soon had him seeing gold.

At the crux of the debate is the issue of whether senior unsecured creditors take a hit.

But we do not abandon our partner or abort the process just because our ego takes a hit.

"They weren't as dogmatic about having a hit single, " Mr. Erlichman is quoted as saying. "They were an album company. "

He also wanted to create what he called a hit factory, an idea he got from working for the Ford Motor Company.

Sales results show pricier department stores taking a hit amid a consumer-spending slowdown, as discount chains draw more shopper traffic.

Mobile technology, virtualization, the social web, cloud computing - a think tank study has all our good friends on a hit list.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Water sports will be a hit this summer season, where diving, snorkeling and jet skiing occupy kids on coastal vacations.

McDonagh has made a hit-man movie in which you don't know what will happen and can't wait to find out. Every movie should be so cliched!

Their cover of Neil Diamond's song "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" appeared prominently in the movie Pulp Fiction, and became a hit in 1994.

The profitability of a product should never take a hit.

Returns a hit test code indicating whether a point is contained in the background of the current visual style element.

The button was a hit among marketers, who initially saw the Like-count as a way to gauge their popularity on the site.

"They were willing to take a hit elsewhere to make the Olympics look good, " one said.

It caught the ear of listeners, who made " Do Something" a hit and turned Gray into one of 1999's most celebrated new artists.

Rino Gattuso took a hit that he hasn't yet recovered from, he could be back by tomorrow but it is unlikely.

Plan a Hit &Run . Plan out a twenty minute or half hour workout.

And what should a betrayed wife do if she doesn't have the nerve or the money to hire a hit man to teach the cheater a lesson?

But those cuts made it much harder for the Joint Strike Fighter to withstand a hit from an anti-aircraft weapon.

A video explaining how the advert works has become a hit on the internet and has been viewed almost half a million times.

Last Friday night, The Fierce Wife, a hit TV soap opera about infidelity, was broadcast its final episode, drawing record high ratings.

By clicking on the signature, a red result sphere will be displayed, telling us which probe got a hit on the site.

In Europe, oil prices are down. Financial sector stocks like UBS and Deutsche Bank are also taking a hit.

In keeping with the prior examples , we will display the referrer and resource of a hit , but only when the request has a status code of.

Chef Zhang hear feel very angry, to move up a hit to the right eye, his right eye Da Xia.

A new product which has beautiful packing, good quality and advertising may very likely be a hit in market.

It has all the makings of a hit single.

Both measures are set to expire by the middle of next year. When they do, sales activity will take a hit.

This is not a hit-the-ball-out-of-the-park kind of strategy.

When his late paintings were shown at Tate Modern they were a hit.

fishing season, fishing allows players to fire machine addiction, popularity, wealth collected a hit!

Yes, she's right, people do get a hit of energy when they're negative about something.

Property shares initially took a hit on the news, but later recovered, with the Hang Seng property index ending up 0. 3%.

How to: Specify a Hit Count to determine whether to break (or execute another specified action).

alleged " political big problem scores a hit entirely " just also mention relevant knowledge dot, basic idea.

As the lines in Ginza and Harajuku indicate, Apple products are a hit here.

They include a furry robot seal, sold as a pet substitute, that has proved a hit with lonely old folk.

All postal operators recognise, however, that the epistolary habit has taken a hit from the internet.

Mike Jackson, the new pop singer, was certainly a hit with the audience at the Playhouse Theatre last night.

The measure, the so-called Super 301, creates a "hit list" of countries deemed to be unfair traders.

The film is also a hit in the South. The two top-grossing theaters for the film were located in Memphis, Tenn. , and Jackson, Miss.

At the 'Eco-ethno' fair in Zagreb the co-operative's are proving to be a hit.

Police allege that an undercover officer posing as a hit man called Dippolito on Monday afternoon and arranged a meeting.

A hit that allows the batter to make a complete circuit of the diamond and score a run.

Whether Warner Music's IPO is a hit with investors, of course, will depend on the price it asks for its shares.

Can the Referee's decision on a "Hit" or "Lost" target be overturned by the Jury or Jury of Appeal?

Roy Hodgson has reportedly already drawn up a hit list of transfer targets.

Seeing that face of my boss, i really want to give him a hit.

"Was that a hit? " Mr Putin asks from a co-pilot's seat.

This unique originality has become quite a hit in the website and Portfield has become the most popular "abdicating girl" overnight.

Spread out! If you bunch your tanks, a miss against one often results in a hit against another.

The show is such a hit that the words used by the characters are becoming more and more a part of popular culture.

Because he had sold only 800 cases of noodles that month, 200 short of his sales target, Mr. Li's paltry salary was taking a hit.

But our opening batter got a hit on the very first pitch of the game.

March 30: Two Wall Street analysts warn clients that summer may come and go without a new iPhone; Apple shares takes a hit.

Frustration will be no solution to your problem, but a hit at yourself!

The charges were eventually dropped, but Bryant's reputation took a hit.

A "hit, " when you are talking about searching for something, is finding something that meets your criteria (that fits your criteria).

Sporting a legion of high? profile musical enablers, Destiny's Child featured a hit single, " No, No, No, " .

'You're basically gambling, ' he says. 'You're just hoping you invested in a hit. '

But Greece has a solvency, not a liquidity, problem and it is a matter of when, not if, creditors take a hit.

The 40 million RMB production of Mamma Mia! is the first all-Chinese version of a hit Broadway musical.

Getting a response online can be a hit-and-miss affair.

It result from a hit to the head, a sudden stop in movement or violent shaking.

Specifies the hit-test code. A hit test is a test that determines the location of the cursor.

Playing golf really has made a hit with my parents and their friends.

In past restructurings bilateral official creditors, but not the IMF, have taken a hit.

If your web site gets lots of traffic it is because you are doing something right, and having a hit counter isn't going to affect this.

His reputation took a hit this week as lawmakers demanded to know why he didn't do more to derail the AIG bonuses.

That was a hit at me.

I think the E72 will be a hit for those who do plenty of messaging, want a good camera, and don't really care for touchscreen.