But there's one thing that the Times, my former employer, probably isn't: a practical model to be emulated by a newspaper industry desperate for a new game plan.
He told me about a desperate message that a farmer left him the other day.
So is this merely a desperate act by a financial giant after having missed the ETF boat?
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They are often nothing of the sort, a mountain made out of a molehill by reporters desperate for a story.
It capped a frantic day for the Scot, who had to launch a desperate search for a caddie before his round started.
The benchmark 10-year yield traded to as low as 3.09% despite a desperate attempt at a rally on Wall Street encouraged by recovering prices for crude oil futures.
The store, which sits along the most trafficked part of the route, happened to be selling the rare goods Friday, drawing a crowd of people desperate for a few bags of flour.
The party is also engaged in a desperate search for a flamboyant standard-bearer, from Jesse Ventura to Pat Buchanan to Donald Trump: for little parties need big names if they are to draw enough signatures (and votes) to keep their official standing.
They were written in the simple, sometimes awkward, sometimes grammatically incorrect, unmistakably hopeful voice of somebody who is just desperate for a chance -- just desperate to live his unlikely dream.
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Others think placing or answering a Web personal makes them seem desperate for a date.
In a town filled with aspiring talent desperate for a sliver of the limelight, the littlest Cruise is something of a misfit.
He was endearingly trusting when, a few days before giving a landmark lecture this week on Conservative crime policy, he allowed a pair of complete strangers supposedly desperate for a pee into his house in the early hours of the morning.
Not only did the partnership give Nokia a better smartphone OS and hence more of a chance to stake a claim on the lucrative smartphone market, it also gave it a deep-pocketed partner that was as desperate for a bigger share of the market.
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Growing numbers choose to take the overseas route to pregnancy, driven by a desperate desire to have a child of their own.
Like Irish and Portuguese leaders before him, the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is fighting a desperate campaign to avoid a bailout.
And while he knows that many recent college graduates decide to start a company out of frustration with the current job market, Dorf says that a desperate founder is rarely a successful one.
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The results at Maytag--300 layoffs in the past 18 months and warnings last month that the flagship laundry machine factory is in deep trouble--have sent town leaders on a desperate scramble to secure a new economic lifeline.
And among those who have gone is Imelda Marcos, widow of the dictator, who withdrew in what looks like a desperate attempt to win a presidential pardon from the victor for the corruption of which she has been convicted.
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Having made their worst start to a Premier League season in nine years, and with owner Mike Ashley still looking for a buyer for the club, second-from-bottom Newcastle were desperate for a win.
The match became a desperate battle to set up a drop-goal with both sides failing with efforts.
It was a hard-earned win for Linfield against a Ballymena team desperate to end a run of defeats.
The church as a whole is desperate to avoid a generalised confrontation between Islam and the Christian West.
The defendant even compares himself to the protagonist of Mr. Kiarostami's "The Traveler" ("Mossafer, " 1974), about a boy so desperate to attend a soccer match that he steals and cheats.
And family members are often desperate for a peek into the digital lives of their loved ones after death.
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King's earliest fans were Hollywood set designers desperate for a new futuristic-looking chair.
The government was desperate for a flagship project to propel the country from obscurity into the world's tourism brochures.
And, plainly, he is desperate for a magic solution to his country's woes.
Mrs Edwards said that when doctors told her she was too late for surgery she was desperate for a lifeline.
And the paparazzi are desperate for a sighting of supermodel Kate Moss, who designs a range of clothing for Topshop.
In extreme cases, an investment firm is so desperate for a specific security that it lends its cash for free.
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