But before he cut the line you could see that the shark was flapping around, injuring himself, because he was desperate to survive.

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Two dozen biotechs have announced layoffs in the last two months, while others are closing down nonessential programs in a desperate bid to survive.

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This is the selling point of Dead State: it is not set during the first desperate struggle to survive, but in the long, dull period when zombies have become a fact of life (or unlife).

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In a desperate but ultimately successful endeavour to survive in an unforgiving environment, various former subsidiaries went in search of new sponsors.

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Despite Western fears over rising levels of immigration to Europe and North America, the report suggests that internal migration within countries poses a more serious humanitarian threat, with migrants struggling to survive in desperate conditions with no rights under international law.

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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.

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"Maybe he got desperate when he saw nobody was coming for him, and thought (the) only way to survive was to walk out" and look for help, Saunders speculated.

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