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Last year, Atlanta Legal Aid handled over 20,000 cases -- representing AIDS patients, domestic violence victims, desperate mothers seeking child support, elderly homeowners fleeced by lenders and the like.
Most pundits think Al Gore is becoming desperate, and some say he's now the underdog.
Desperate people who have lost all hope for themselves are biologically driven to propel possibly surviving offspring into the next generation.
She has many positive qualities, but people in crises do desperate things.
Instead of USX buying Marathon Oil in a desperate attempt to diversify into a business it hadn't proved it couldn't run, we have Boeing buying McDonnell Douglas, British Telecom buying MCI, and Raytheon buying Hughes Electronics.