My head hit the ceiling and my feet were funneled together in the narrow footwell.
In later life, Mr Walker enjoyed recounting the story of how, as a surgeon prised the armour-piercing bullet from his ankle at the RAF Hospital, it shot out and hit the ceiling.
The investigators watched as the fire quickly consumed the couch, sending upward a plume of smoke that hit the ceiling and spread outward, creating a thick layer of hot gases overhead an efficient radiator of heat.
"Right about that time, we hit some really severe turbulence, and ... several people flew up and hit the ceiling of the plane and then were immediately slammed down to the floor of the plane, " first class passenger Jeff Hornback told KPLC.
The Treasury Department said yesterday the U.S. is on track to hit the debt ceiling by the end of the year, which adds another element of uncertainty to the market.
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At the rate the country is going now, the country will hit the debt ceiling again at some point in the second half of 2012, just in time for Democrats and Republicans to blame each other in time for November elections.
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In contrast, if Congress allowed the federal government to hit the debt ceiling, it would effectively be telling the government, by law, to do two contradictory things.
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The Treasury was about to hit the debt ceiling, sometime in middle to late February.
Without any action from Congress, the government will hit the debt ceiling by mid-February.
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Labrador wanted House leaders to be willing to hit the debt ceiling unless Obama agreed to spending cuts.
She hit the glass ceiling, and watched men she once trained promoted up the ladder ahead of her.
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And she worked her way up to become a vice president at a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling.
But at some point she hit the glass ceiling, and for a big chunk of her career, she watched other men that she had trained -- younger men that she had trained -- pass her up that ladder.
Sparks apparently hit the soundproofing material on the ceiling which triggered the blaze, which quickly got out of control.
My guess is that whereas when a Japanese company made an acquisition the foreign executives immediately hit the equivalent of a glass ceiling, in the case of foreigners in a Chinese company, it's going to be easier for them to move up the ranks.
One of the major reasons behind this scenario is also the fact that CIOs in most companies hit a career ceiling within the companies that they work in.
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Lower tax revenues pressures the U.S. deficit, which is likely to hit its deficit ceiling before the November election.
The Republicans could defer all discussions with regard to the debt ceiling, which may be hit as early as January, to the next Congress by increasing the debt ceiling by the amount necessary to accommodate three or six additional months of deficit spending.
Unless Republicans capitulate to increasing the debt ceiling America hit its statutorily allowed limit on Dec. 31 the federal government will shutdown sometime before March.
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On a recent trip, passengers scooted sideways down a 16-inch aisle, some slumped over so their shoulders didn't hit the small overhead bins and their heads didn't scrape the ceiling.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said the U.S. will hit its debt ceiling Dec. 31 in a letter to congressional leaders.
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In contrast, the Peter Principle suggests this salesperson would hit a career ceiling.
The U.S. congress and the president are still at loggerheads over raising the U.S. debt ceiling that will be hit in early August.
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And the U.S. congress and the President Obama are still at loggerheads over raising the U.S. debt ceiling that will be hit in early August.
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So the theory has always been that China couldn't really - they would hit a ceiling, at some point.
This summer she plans to hit a few more caves in Kentucky, including one where unclassified microorganisms are eating away at the ceiling, turning it into a squishy white substance like icing on a cake.
The 9.9% ceiling on the large-deposit tax means that small savers also had to take a hit.
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