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• [_ARG1 New York bonds] , which *T*-2 have been [_rel hammered] *-1 [_ARGM-TMP in recent weeks] [_ARGM-CAU on the pending supply and reports that the city 's economy is growing weaker] , rose 1\/2 point yesterday .
• [_ARG1 Bethlehem Steel Corp.] , [_rel hammered] * by [_ARG2-by higher costs and lower shipments to key automotive and service-center customers] , posted a 54 % drop in third-quarter profit .
• `` You want *-1 to know how a fund did [_ARGM-TMP when] [_ARG1 the market] got [_rel hammered] *T*-3 *T*-2 , '' said *T*-4 Kurt Brouwer , an investment adviser with Brouwer & Janachowski in San Francisco .
• But while they want *-2 to be on the alert for similar buying opportunities now , [_ARG1 they] 're afraid of *-3 being [_rel hammered] *-1 by [_ARG2-by another terrifying plunge] .
• At those levels , [_ARG1 stocks] are set up *-3 to be [_rel hammered] *-1 by [_ARG0-by index arbitragers , who *T*-2 lock in profits by *-4 buying futures when futures prices fall *T*-5 , and simultaneously sell off stocks] .
• Fidelity 's Mr. Lynch , for his part , snapped up Southern Co. shares Friday after [_ARG1 the stock] got [_rel hammered] *-1 .
• [_ARG1 Nasdaq 's biggest stocks] were [_rel hammered] *-1 .
• The aim of the interruption would be * to ease the opening of [_ARG1 the New York Stock Exchange] , which *T*-2 [_ARGM-MOD would] be [_rel hammered] *-1 by [_ARG2-by such a volatile move on the Merc] .
• Despite the relatively strong economy , [_ARG1 junk bond prices] did nothing except go down , * [_rel hammered] by [_ARG2-by a seemingly endless trail of bad news] :