Julian understood that he would have to hire cheap help, a broken-down old carpenter desperate for work, or some rehabilitating wino or mental case, and the thought elevated his spirits, as if such servitude would echo the history of the place.

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He told police that he had been depressed and desperate and offered to work for free to repay the money.

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Much of the research on work-life conflict focuses on harried working mothers trying to juggle everything, desperate for more time, with lots of reasons to leave work early.

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Add to that an average period of unemployment for boomers of nearly one-full year and you have a large and increasingly desperate group of people competing for twenty-first century work, often equipped with only twentieth century skills.

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Ms Rantzen visited staff and volunteers and thanked them for their hard work, offering protection and support to "vulnerable and desperate" children.

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An aggressive campaign could recruit 26, 000 new teachers in-state and from across the country in very short order from teachers who are desperate to find work, and who will not mind working longer days or being held accountable for student test scores.

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With employers like Liu calling for a lower minimum wage, South Africa finds itself in a situation where it is desperate to create work, but unable to guarantee what the government considers decent pay.

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