• This may be the company that stepped in and reshuffled the very basic facts of the music industry, but the music industry was crippled and desperate at the time.

    FORBES: How Much Would You Pay for an Apple TV?

  • Encouraging laid-off and deferred attorneys to go into public service is filling a desperate need at public interest firms.

    CNN: For jobless lawyers, plan B includes good works

  • We are talking about small and medium-sized companies that are emptying their barrels in a desperate shot at winning new customers and a feeble trickle of cash flow.

    FORBES: Are Group Deals Killing Brands?

  • 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.

    FORBES: Bonds Run Out Of Steam Ahead Of FOMC Minutes

  • Search and rescue teams continued their desperate efforts at Plaza Towers Elementary, where the storm ripped off the school's roof, knocked down walls and turned the playground into a mass of twisted plastic and metal as students and teachers huddled in hallways and bathrooms.

    NPR: Medical Examiner: 24 Dead In Oklahoma Twister

  • The goal did little to improve the rather slow tempo of the game but it did at least provide Malbranque and Dimitar Berbatov the opportunity to show some fine touches of the ball with the visiting defence reduced to some desperate defence at times.

    BBC: Tottenham 5-1 Fulham

  • 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.

    BBC: Matt Roberts' MotoGP column

  • But US Interactive botched the job, and a desperate Winebaum turned at the last minute to 23-year-old James Gilliam, a techie who joined Ecompanies from Lycos.

    FORBES: The Eparty's Over

  • But with the comparative riches of Europe so seemingly close at hand, desperate migrants will undoubtedly continue to put their lives at risk for what they believe to be their one chance of a brighter, better future.

    BBC: Migrants risk all from Libyan port

  • Few are yet desperate enough to sell at what Mr Mudd's crack number-crunchers think they are worth.

    ECONOMIST: GE Capital in Asia: Vulture | The

  • There have been huge pressure to recruit massive numbers of overseas students and they have gone in for rather desperate searches for profits at all costs.

    BBC: Britain's choice on top-up fees

  • And not because we care so much about Jesus, but because we were desperately seeking some avenue of relief, some way of venting our collective rage at our desperate straits.

    FORBES: Don't Be Fooled, The Middle Eastern Riots Aren't What You Think They Are

  • And if England rode their luck in the face of an inevitable second-half revival from Argentina, who is to say they did not finally deserve it after Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" in 1986 and the desperate exit on penalties at France 98?

    BBC: Owen and Butt lead the charge

  • It is also crucial that other less developed countries, particularly those in Latin America, not be victimized by blatant preferential treatment accorded reforming East European countries when the former are, in several cases, in equally desperate financial need and at least as firmly set on a course of painful economic sacrifice.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Safeguarding US Equities While Aiding Poland And Hungary

  • The Merzbarn in the Lake District was made at a desperate time in his life, when Schwitters found himself subsisting, with a serious heart condition, in dank English lodgings on the proceeds of academic portraits and landscapes, despondent that he could not even obtain an interview with the director of the National Gallery in London.

    ECONOMIST: Kurt Schwitters

  • The timing of the move shows just how desperate the situation had become at Bear.

    ECONOMIST: Rescuing a Wall Street bank

  • This autumn, Minsheng launches the first container service from Chongqing, aimed at inland manufacturers desperate to find new markets.

    ECONOMIST: The benign ghost of Lu Zoufu

  • Boss Steve Fallon - a former Cambridge star - knows the U's will be desperate to avoid defeat even at this early stage of the season.

    BBC: Cambs rivals ready for derby game

  • Social safety nets are much better developed than they were in the 1930s, which may make the poor less desperate and constrain their anger at the rich.

    ECONOMIST: Easier for a camel

  • Desperate residents -- who at least had enough power to charge their mobile devices -- used social media to try to avoid long lines or empty gas stations.

    CNN: Long gas lines test patience of storm-struck residents

  • On Thursday, a truck run by the US-based Catholic Relief Service was reported to have been overrun by desperate people when it arrived at a makeshift camp in the town of Leogane.

    BBC: What is delaying Haiti's aid?

  • Telephone networks throughout the city were jammed solid at times as desperate New Yorkers attempted to call friends and family, either to try to find out what had happened or reassure loved ones.

    BBC: Attacks paralyse New York

  • This time, though, they could not attract the same quality of borrower as before: with the housing market looking vulnerable, only the desperate were willing to borrow at interest rates of over 8%.

    ECONOMIST: Mortgage lending

  • There was even praise for the Millennium Stadium crowd, Edwards saying he was "heartened" by the fans' vocal appreciation of some desperate defence as Scotland battered at the Wales line in the closing stages.

    BBC: Fear drives Wales team forward

  • 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.

    BBC: Australia crash to seventh defeat

  • But if the work pays off, Dirks may be able to give his desperate young patients a real shot at a cure, and put his scalpel away for good.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • But universities are clearly becoming desperate, and the arrival of at least four firms of ambulance-chasing lawyers keen to persuade students to sue for breach of contract can only make them more so.

    ECONOMIST: Unruly academics: Anarchy in academe | The

  • Environmentalists, long vexed by the destruction of Indonesia's primal forests and the damage done to its vast marine life, believe that the new government, desperate for foreign aid, will at last allow them to do something to stop the depredation.

    ECONOMIST: A Survey of Indonesia

  • While the financial press would have the public believe that the transgressions surfacing at this time were desperate measures adopted by the mutual fund industry as assets under management plummeted around 2000, illegal and unethical activity has been pervasive for over 20 years.

    FORBES: 2003: A Year of Awakening (December 3, 2003 )

  • They are desperate for someone to fill the vacuum at the heart of government.

    ECONOMIST: Barack Obama��s first 100 days have already begun

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