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Third-party groups have also spent heavily on advertising for the race, including American Crossroads, a group with ties to Karl Rove, which has hammered Mr. Reid on the airwaves.

In her current apartment, for example, which has hammered tin ceilings and decorative fireplaces, a chunk of the bathroom ceiling came down recently, leaving a hole the size of a small pizza box above the toilet.

"The German taxpayer profits from a stable euro, and that holds for protecting it," Mr. Weber told Germany's highest-circulation newspaper, the tabloid Bild, which has hammered relentlessly on the theme of Greek greed and wastefulness since the crisis began this year.

"There's a new word in our fashion vocabulary which didn't used to be there," Ms. Mallis said, "and it's called 'appropriate.' " But many retailers and designers say that Fashion Week had begun to choke on its own success and needed a change long before Sept. 11, and even before the economic downturn, which has hammered the apparel industry.

Assertiveness may well be needed to guide the company through the coming year, which presents the twin challenges of severely diminished Western demand and the yen's surge, which has hammered overseas earnings.

The decline in earnings is largely tied to the steep drop in the price of oil, which has hammered energy companies' stock prices as well as their profits.

Add in skyrocketing star salaries and ballooning marketing costs, which have hammered margins, and pop go the sweetheart deals.

Wetherspoon is seeking a bigger share of the breakfast market to offset the effect of cheap booze deals at superstores, which have hammered sales across the pub industry.

David Montgomery has pledged that Local World will kickstart a "fightback" in the ailing regional newspaper industry, and promised to shy away from the endless rounds of cost-cutting which have hammered the sector.

Plunging oil prices and the global financial crisis, which have hammered Russia particularly hard, have raised questions about Russia's reliability as an economic partner, while Barack Obama's victory in the presidential race has raised hopes throughout Latin America of a new era of improved relations with the United States.

"It's fair to say we have been less in-your-face," said David Nassar, the executive director of Wal-Mart Watch, which had hammered the company in stinging newspaper advertisements and provocative reports with titles like "Shameless: How Wal-Mart Bullies Its Way Into Communities Across America".