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But the government's desperate hope is that if it pulls out of the local credit market, interest rates will fall, allowing growth to resume by the end of the year.
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Mann and Depp have made Dillinger a gentleman thug, loyal to his friends and to his hatcheck girlfriend, Billie Frechette, played by Marion Cotillard with a combination of desperate hope and fear that is enormously appealing.
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Miss six: With the foot-and-mouth crisis having worsened substantially during the past week, there was a desperate hope that the chancellor would have announced a multi-billion pound package to help not only farmers but also ancillary industries, such as slaughterhouses and hauliers.
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Perhaps because of the speedy denouement this time around, so far there is no sign of the sorts of reckless cover-ups that ultimately brought previous rogue traders low: no fraudulent financial records or desperate double-or-quits on bad bets in the hope of recouping mounting losses.
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Chelsea offered their increasingly frustrated supporters some hope seconds before half-time when United somehow survived a desperate scramble.
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The Red Bulls hope that the appointment of Roxburgh as technical director will help them avoid such desperate measures in the future.
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The innovations these companies are developing gives us hope that we will be able to meet the needs of a world that will be desperate for food and protein as it nears nine billion people.
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But it's a measure of both how much worse things have been in the past, and how desperate Somalis are for progress, that most people I've spoken to here are inclined to invest real hope in the current "road map", even if it is an obviously flawed process at the mercy of the usual currents of clan rivalry and regional divisions.
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Let's hope that's right, and that most Americans do see these tactics for what they are: desperate attempts to thwart reform.
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