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The dollar is only slightly weaker against the euro when compared to a year ago, just as the financial crisis hit full stride.

The Asian financial crisis hit China just as it was making a painful economic adjustment after the bust of a credit boom in the mid-1990s.

Rayonier (RYN, news) is another timber producer with a lot of land that it was busy developing until the U. S. mortgage crisis hit.

Abu Dhabi was willing to help when crisis hit, but it is tightening its purse-strings and some of its own property companies are struggling.

It was the first Asian country to move into recession when the crisis hit home in 2008, and the first to start growing again a year ago.

Volvo was on the auction block even before the financial crisis hit, and the sale allowed the company to get on with its business.

A glut of new ships entering the market just as the global crisis hit demand for shipping was also a factor.

Nor is the IMF money likely to be the only cash on the table or even the biggest contribution in many crisis-hit countries.

Suicide rates in Europe had been decreasing. But then the international banking crisis hit in two thousand eight.

Then the global economic crisis hit and on the back of weak financial results BMW decided not to risk the launch of such an expensive model.

This was a burden that crisis-hit Japan did not have to bear.

Spain, too, has been caught up in the crisis - hit by high unemployment, high government debt and slow growth.

To understand what needs to be done, we have to understand the economy's problems before the crisis hit.

When the financial crisis hit, demand in the commercial computing market on which it relies fell heavily, dragging it into losses.

As the economic crisis hit in late 2008, some said the same about the industry itself.

Then crisis hit, lending weight to the quip "What you see is what you get; what you don't see gets you. "

Labour-market reforms will help workers from crisis-hit industries to move to more vibrant parts of the economy.

When the global financial crisis hit the next year, the value of these assets deflated.

But Greeks coming to Australia in search of work and a better life will have to compete with a growing throng of other crisis-hit Europeans.

The crisis hit at the end of a long period when visitor numbers were growing faster than the number of hotel rooms.

But the result was that when the financial crisis hit, ISDA brushed away calls for reform.

Similarly, big efforts have been made to rescue the crisis-hit countries of central and eastern Europe.

Most crisis-hit emerging economies experienced huge recessions and a tidal wave of insolvencies.

Liquidity and currency crisis hit Iceland , Hungary, Ukraine and Pakistan which force them to turn to IMF for help.

Since then capitalism has thrived. There was steady economic growth until the financial crisis hit.

But the approach has not worked so well since the financial crisis hit in 2008 and many insurers cut or cancelled cover.

Until the global financial crisis hit, Bangladesh was on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015.

Suicide rates in Europe had been decreasing. But then the international banking crisis hit in 2008.

The first chapters of the financial crisis hit investment banks disproportionately hard; the closing ones will focus on commercial banks.

IKEA's strong brand and low prices helped it to weather the downturn, even though 80% of its sales are in crisis-hit Europe.

That move was made by crisis-hit Iceland yesterday and it was also taken by Europe's largest economy, Germany, at the weekend.

The de-bubbling process inflicted great damage on the corporate sector, from which it was finally recovering when the subprime crisis hit.

US rival Nike last month reported sluggish sales growth in North America as the housing and credit crisis hit consumers there.

When the crisis hit, European leaders were left without an institutional setting that would have forced a coordinated response.

"When the crisis hit in 2008, we were a bit stuck, " he recalls.

When economic crisis hit in 2008, demand for the basic chemicals used in everything from paints to plastic bags plummeted.

It is wrong because far from all crisis-hit countries suffered from irresponsible fiscal policies.

Focusing on this criterion would have missed all today's crisis-hit members, except Greece.

Until the global crisis hit, around 80% of these products were sold abroad.

Until the crisis hit, about 30, 000 Greeks a year studied abroad.

Up until the financial crisis hit, much of the world was focused on filling U. S. consumers' widening maw.

When the current crisis hit, Mr. Bernanke was indeed very aggressive about cutting interest rates and pushing funds into the private sector.

After the global financial crisis hit, Dongguan's exports plummeted by about 25 percent. Thousands of factories simply closed.

Thus, in the crisis-hit countries themselves, the consequence of the private sector cutback has been the fiscal deterioration.

Before the financial crisis hit, a tiny upstart like PartnersFirst wouldn't have been much of a competitive threat.

Despite earlier media hype, there is no sign that China has actively purchased bonds of crisis-hit countries.

Officials from the International Monetary Fund raced from one crisis-hit country to the next.

until the crash and ensuing economic crisis hit her previously prosperous clients.

No sooner had the 2008 Olympic Games finished than the financial crisis hit the world, which, naturally, affected the hotel business.

Taiwan's export manufacturers, which are mostly in high-tech sectors, saw orders evaporate when the global economic crisis hit last October.

But when the financial crisis hit, these darlings of international capitalism found their open economies amongst the most vulnerable.

After the financial crisis hit, the state assumed more control over the economy.

AS THE financial crisis hit in late 2008, Meccano, a French maker of construction toys, watched its pre-Christmas sales slip.

And when the financial crisis hit, it left the government with the untenable choice between taxpayer-funded bailouts and financial collapse.

Because inflation and interest rates were low when the crisis hit, central banks had little room to cut rates to cushion the economic blow.

Russia had appeared on track to surpass Germany as Europe's largest car market, but demand collapsed when the financial crisis hit.

Darren Henderson was making $33 an hour laying sheet metal, until the real-estate crisis hit and he lost his job.

The credit crisis hit to banks' balance sheets is far from over.

And yes, the crisis-hit countries start from grossly unsustainable fiscal positions.

A world oil crisis hit airline travel hard, and his business never recovered.

Central banks performed impressively once the full force of the crisis hit.

Portugal is a country that many had written off as the European debt crisis hit.

Mr. Huang's problems are not deterring China from seeking to snap up bargains in crisis-hit Europe, however.

Over one-third of those home-equity loans are in crisis-hit California.

Unfortunately, the outlook for America's potential growth rate was darkening long before the financial crisis hit.

When the financial crisis hit, the repo markets froze, causing a massive contraction in available credit.

The implications would be dramatic: GDP would be around a quarter lower in 2030 than the Treasury thought before the crisis hit.

The recent financial crisis hit the museum of arts and humanities seriously, while the impact on science museum is not serious.

The unfolding global credit crisis hit China's exports and sent the broader economy reeling.

Yet since the financial crisis hit in 2008, the industry has been all but transformed.

Since the crisis hit, her monthly salary has been cut in half.

And that just wasn't enough margin of safety when the global financial crisis hit.

When the financial crisis hit, many observers blamed the disaster on the misuse of financial models.

Not anything like the levels of 2006 or 2007, before the global economic crisis hit full force.

But the model came into question in 2008 and 2009, when the financial crisis hit.

The financial crisis hit some of Europe's largest buy-out funds hard.

As ministers cast around for new sources of growth to make up for crisis-hit financial services, science and technology suggest themselves.

Before the crisis hit, temporary jobs accounted for more than a third of Spain's total, the largest share in the EU.

The financial crisis hit Europe hard because our fiscal houses were not in order.

But the resulting financial crisis hit mainly the rich world rather than the emerging markets.

The financial crisis hit the world like a sudden jolt, and it hit the world where it hurts the most: money.

When the crisis hit, it acted as a cheerleader for Britain's shaky banks.

Then, when the food crisis hit, the cost of foreign rice shot up.

Inevitably, another financial crisis hit this summer in the US and Europe.

But the initiative proved contentious and the Committee of European Banking Supervisors was still talking when the 2008 crisis hit.

The global economic crisis hit in October 2008 has defused the serious shortage situation of China's coal energy by accident.

However, once the financial crisis hit, Citic's offshore expansion ambitions were put on hold.

Similar shifts occurred in other crisis-hit countries.

The global financial crisis hit a lot of industries: exporters, banks, insurance.

Until the global financial crisis hit, Japanese executives lived in fear of becoming the target of activist hedge funds.

Current forecasts are evidently much higher than those made before the crisis hit.

When the sovereign debt crisis hit the eurozone this principle was ditched.

Why did creditors not prevent the banks taking excessive risks before the crisis hit?

Economic crisis-hit airline industry, grounded in the past year 29% increase in the number of plane to plane 2302.

Planning for retirement may require saving a lot more than was thought wise before the crisis hit.

Then, when the food crisis hit, the cost of foreign riceshutshot up.

The string of acquisitions left it with real-estate loans that went sour quickly when the financial crisis hit in 2008.

When the food crisis hit, the World Bank's Global Food Price Crisis Response Program (GFRP) allocated $10 million to Yemen.

And why has the global crisis hit Japan much harder than other rich economies?

After the global financial crisis hit, Dongguan's exports plummeted by about 25 percent.

And that fleet's tonnage grew by 6% in 2008 as new ships ordered before the financial crisis hit the waves.

In 2011, the IMF expects growth of 4. 3% -- a bit slower than average global growth before the financial crisis hit hard in 2007.

In the euro zone, recovery was faltering long before the Greek crisis hit.

Diageo's beer business has been struggling recently, especially in crisis-hit countries such as Ireland, Guinness's spiritual home.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of O'Neill's golden child is what it didn't do: collapse under scrutiny as the credit crisis hit.

In the late 1990s, after the Asian financial crisis hit, that wasn't always easy.

So when the crisis hit, the Chinese government could adopt textbook policies to jump-start growth.

Fast forward to the latest forecasts for crisis-hit 2009.

Will the sovereign debt crisis hit the UK?

For the first time exports (textiles, shoes) fell by 10% in 2009, after the financial crisis hit demand in the US, Europe and Japan.

As Treasury secretary, Hank Paulson had begun a review of the US system, if we can call it that, even before the crisis hit.

Before the crisis hit, the government was trying hard to restrain runaway lending.

Before the credit crisis hit in early 2007, these markets were raising more than $200bn a month.

SIRVAT VORAVETVUTHIKUN: When the crisis hit, I realized my fate. I could not sell a single unit when the crisis hit.

And then the economic crisis hit.

Instead, when the crisis hit, it boomed.

When the crisis hit in 2008 the construction boom was already over.

Then, when the food crisis hit, the cost offarmforeign rice shot up.

Reckless lending by Asian banks drove many to the brink when the 1997-98 financial crisis hit.

The crisis hit its peak in September and October 2008.

Bnd then the Bsian financial crisis hit .

The extra cash has allowed the IMF to go into crisis-hit countries with packages that can make a difference.

These moves will make the once wealthy residents of crisis-hit countries feel poorer.

Crisis-hit multinationals have found new sources of profit growth in China.

When the crisis hit last year, there were plenty of calls to reduce Chinese exposure and punish US profligacy by dumping dollar assets.

Air Liquide planned to recruit 25, 000 new workers in five years before the crisis hit.

The index peaked at 32, 500 before the crisis hit.

When the financial crisis hit last year, he says many people looked forward to a so-called green recovery.

Nonetheless the macroeconomic trends in America look more like those that existed in Japan than other crisis-hit countries.