In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.

Input: Consider Input: Passage: Bethlehem Steel Corp., hammered by higher costs and lower shipments to key automotive and service-center customers, posted a 54% drop in third-quarter profit. Separately, two more of the nation's top steelmakers -- Armco Inc. and National Intergroup Inc. -- reported lower operating earnings in their steel businesses, marking what is generally believed to be the end of a two-year boom in the industry.

Output: hammered

Input: Consider Input: Passage: U.S. Trust, a 136-year-old institution that is one of the earliest high-net worth banks in the U.S., has faced intensifying competition from other firms that have established, and heavily promoted, private-banking businesses of their own. As a result, U.S. Trust's earnings have been hurt.

Output: is

Input: Consider Input: Passage: The additional 200 million dollars to build a backup for the missing Russian service module, he said, will come from the US shuttle program, but a decision to build the substitute component will not be made until mid-May. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had planned to launch the first module of the 43 billion dollar space station Alpha in November of this year.
Output: build