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Several pundits recited the economic arithmetic of the Asian meltdown: 1) Desperate Asian economies will dump goods here, benefiting U.S. consumers--but hurting U.S. workers--and reducing our inflation.
Know-nothing attacks and a desperate defense strategy have conspired to wreck what a decade ago stood as a well-functioning, valuable, and inexpensive agency of government.
Many officials told us that they knew something terrible was planned, and they were desperate to stop it.
As he keeps missing his targets, he takes aim at less and less compelling ones, desperate to convict someone, anyone, of something.
Aren't people who sell their organs out of desperate financial need acting involuntarily?