Even the headlines in the city's normally gung-ho sports dailies have a whiff desperation about them.
Favreau's reconstructed Iron Man is still a human gun, but he's no longer gung-ho, exactly.
The trouble is that they aren't expanding into new finds as rapidly as the gung-ho Canadians.
The more gung-ho even talked of taking over foreign oil firms, such as Exxon, themselves.
But I also noticed that at first, they would be all gung-ho and make these great changes.
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But until recently malaria, the infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes, has had no gung-ho celebrity attached to it.
Not exactly orthodox investment banking procedure, but it is illustrative of the crazy, gung-ho nature of some entrepreneurs.
How does a gung-ho CEO turn around an aging elephant of a company without making the behemoth stumble?
When I was a young and gung-ho reporter, I would have headed toward the action with notebook in hand.
If I was a gung-ho journalist, the story I would write would be nowhere near as funny and likable.
Presumably because of this, elite and regular Americans alike are feeling less gung-ho.
Banks are now less gung-ho about lending both to individuals and to firms.
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Rhodri Glyn Thomas, their candidate, is gung-ho about his chances after a recent opinion poll suggested he could edge ahead.
It would be hard to find a bigger contrast with the gung-ho, monosyllabic culture that turned RBS into an acquisition machine.
After quickly consulting Project ALS scientific advisors, who also were gung-ho, she cut a check to get the research started within days.
But Scottish business is (mostly) gung-ho for the benefits it could bring.
Tatiana Orlova, a strategist and economist at Nomura in Moscow, believes that Russia is really not all that gung-ho about the WTO.
And the White House wants to shake off the perception that Mr Bush is prepared to contemplate a unilateral, gung-ho military adventure.
Both sides are gung-ho, each believing they can win this latest fight.
The government is also not quite as gung-ho as it sometimes sounds.
But the gung-ho 33-year-old appears undeterred as she takes 'My Africa Is' to a Nigeria vs Argentina football match in the capital Abuja.
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As the beleaguered rebels run out of ammunition, Mr Assad's more gung-ho enemies in the Gulf appear willing (though slow) to ship in arms.
When he runs around from one part of the perimeter to another, his M-16 blazing, the movie is exciting in a rudimentary, gung-ho way.
They're gung-ho, full of confidence and slipping away from ISI's leash.
Both government officials and residents of the area affected were gung-ho.
Its gung-ho aura grew when its own commandos, the Sunshine Boys, rescued two of EDS' employees held hostage in a maximum-security prison in Iran in 1979.
While he's not quite as gung-ho on the fall shopping season as the NRF survey, "to some extent, consumers will still make these purchases, " he says.
Up stepped Ian Botham with a gung-ho 149 to at least make Australia bat again, when an inspired Bob Willis swept through their line-up with 8-43.
Having not been paid, Bianco and Villagran decided to take a more gung-ho approach to secure payment for their alleged involvement in Yacob's move to West Brom.
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