There were all those oil producers with an embarrassment of profits and a desperate need to look as if all they cared about was finding alternative energy sources.

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Carlo Ancelotti's men were heavily criticised for a sloppy defensive display in the humbling 3-0 home defeat by Sunderland last week, and they began with the look of a side desperate to prove it was a mere blip.

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They had the half-desperate look of soldiers in a convoy, advancing toward a beachhead.

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She began a desperate search for doctors she trusted who did not look at her "just like I was a dollar sign, " she said.

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This city is clearly aching and desperate to become a basketball town again look how wild it's going for a flawed team that remains under .500.

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"You shouldn't eat in a booth, read in a booth or look like you are bored, or desperate, " she says.

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Hewlett-Packard, which is in desperate need of new life may also look to Palo Alto as a way to enter the rising security market.

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So it may be better to look for a solution on the demand side: why is it that British pension funds are so desperate for long gilts in the first place?

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