Following a job loss or layoff, professionals turn to self-employment largely out of desperation.
Factors such as greed, desperation, immorality and bad judgment drive some executives to corporate fraud.
But two years later its Las Vegas utility, Nevada Power, called him back out of desperation.
"They respect the work ethic and the desperation that our guys played with, " Capuano said.
It's the siren song of every entrepreneur in need of cash: confident, upbeat, masking desperation.
The US State Department says the Syrian government cut communications in a sign of its desperation.
Even Lyle Overbay, a desperation signing in late March, has given the Yankees league-average production.
Even the headlines in the city's normally gung-ho sports dailies have a whiff desperation about them.
Their persistence, as well as the spuriousness of the lawsuit, reflects the desperation that loggers feel.
If you think that junk shot and top hat reek of desperation, well maybe so.
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The bold move demonstrates the Redskins' desperation for a franchise quarterback after two decades of struggles.
Police told reporters there was "no doubt" Dionisi and Sopranzi committed suicide out of desperation.
Fielden's capture highlights Wigan's determination - or desperation - to stay in the top flight.
"When you get into the tournament, you play with a certain level of desperation, " Kelly said.
For some villagers, desperation reigns as they struggle to find work in the parched crop fields.
The BBC's Africa analyst Martin Plaut says the statement carries an air of desperation.
Sensing the turn in his audience's mood, Travis' voice gained an edge of desperation.
This desperation selling, coupled with non-negotiable demands from lenders for more cash in their margin account.
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What unites the three now, in Hoffa's mind anyway, is the sullen desperation of the excluded.
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Driven by fiscal desperation, governments will increasingly steel themselves to alter the way benefits work.
Others are dreamed up by local people with few assets other than their own desperation.
And may indicate this level of desperation which make people believe that he's guilty.
For less sanguine investors, the idea of going cap in hand to China smacked of desperation.
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Evidently, corporate Japan can change, given plenty of time, creativity - and a bit of desperation.
Perhaps because he is not striving for position, he lacks the desperation of younger colleagues.
Amid this landscape of desperation, charter schools often serve as lone, luminous beacons of hope.
But Mr Blunkett's desperation to reduce crime by fair, foul or speculative means is understandable.
Yet, much of what society does has been to increase rather than decrease their desperation.
All of this testifies to the fact that a note of desperation is creeping into European discussions.
We feel both the blind mechanics of catastrophe and the desperation of those caught in its midst.
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