This time next year, Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo are likely to be locked in a desperate battle for holiday dollars.
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At Yum Brands' three main chains, U.S. average same-store sales growth softened last year after the first quarter. (They rose an estimated 2% for the year.) In a move that can be seen as desperate, McDonald's and Burger King keep extending those 99-cent add-ons in an attempt to boost sales.
Sri Lanka can sweep this series 3-0 with a win in Brisbane on Sunday, but the Aussies will be desperate to stop the rot at the Gabba, where the Ashes series starts in 20 days.
Securing private investments in their stock used to be the desperate measure of cash-strapped dot-coms teetering on the abyss.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Actress Nicollette Sheridan's wrongful termination lawsuit against the studio that produces "Desperate Housewives" will be retried in September, a Los Angeles judge ordered this week.
Similarly, in boom conditions commodity consumers will be so desperate to get their hands on raw materials that they will drive prices up to absurd levels, at least for a short time.
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In a move that can be seen as desperate, McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) and Burger King keep extending those 99-cent add-ons in the U.S. in an attempt to boost sales.
Mr Anderson said he feared the council would not be able to help to vulnerable and desperate people in "some of the most deprived communities, not just in Liverpool but the country".
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So Tricky Dicky taunts Kissinger with the spectre of Ford giving his job to Al Haig should Nixon fail to survive, while Kissinger dangles the judgement of history in front of a master desperate to be remembered as a great statesman.
The children were hiding in the woods in order not to be taken, it was a desperate situation.
"Upton Park would be redeveloped and there is a desperate need for that in the area, " he commented.
Simon Jones is desperate to prove that he can be effective in one day cricket - it seems that he needs to convince Glamorgan of that too.
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Though most of the ten other candidates (Net entrepreneurs and industry players all) were in the room, no desperate attempt can be reported of any of them trying to seize Tracy's tiara, or even the bottle of metallic-blue nail-polish.
And there was an outcry from fans in 1997 when Desperate Dan was supposedly to be retired after heading off into the sunset with the Spice Girls - although DC Thomson later admitted the storyline had been a publicity stunt to generate attention for its 60th anniversary.
The NUS president, who has always championed partnership working in the past, said there would be a "desperate need" for a new universities' "watchdog", with powers to refer university pricing practices to the Office for Fair Trading or the Monopolies Commission and to monitor the accuracy of prospectuses.
In other words, they may be prone to take desperate measures.
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He'll be very motivated, (but) if he goes in so desperate to do well it might not happen.
The desperate shortage of affordable homes in England appears to be worsening, following Tuesday's publication of national housing statistics.
Still, they're expecting brisk business in August, as city-bound New Yorkers will be desperate for a break from the urban jungle.
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Republican Mitt Romney, who must be getting desperate since he can't get beyond 15 percent in national polls, is using the case to bludgeon Rudy Giuliani.
Will this verdict strike such fear in the hearts of current or future desperate-to-be-a-star players that it will deter those so inclined from doping?
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After a series of increasingly-desperate attempts by would-be immigrants to surmount the barriers in 2005, Spain and Morocco agreed to deploy extra troops to try to secure the borders.
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You may be able to tell from my desperate clutching at stats that there is little in the way of paddock gossip this weekend, although some major changes are afoot on Lorenzo's side of the Yamaha garage - more details of which are likely to emerge as the weekend progresses.
One imagines that EE's executives were desperate to offer Apple just about any deal, in order to be the only operator offering a 4G iPhone in the UK, but it now seems unlikely that will happen.
Real could also be desperate to hold on to Beckham, who signed a four-year deal in July 2003, for financial reasons.
Even though Freedom Group appears to be financially successful, Cerberus will now have to sell its stake in the company as a desperate seller.
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Franchises in Tampa Bay and Oakland are desperate for new ballparks and without public support may be forced to relocate.
Only in his depleted and desperate state would Max have considered that his best option would be to run, stumble, and crawl through the densest and wildest kind of jungle toward the sounds of what seemed to be some kind of riot.
Some deal is likely to emerge from this group, not least because DaimlerChrysler is desperate for a partner in its small-car business: Peugeot or Fiat would be an ideal fit.
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