• Battery-maker A123 Systems, desperate for money, fell into the hands of a Chinese auto supplier.

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  • The oligarchs wound up lending the fledgling Russian government money "when it was desperate for money, " she said.

    CNN: Russian tycoon Berezovsky dies in exile, relative says

  • Those like Berezovsky wound up lending the fledgling Russian government money "when it was desperate for money, " Dougherty said.

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  • Businessmen such as Berezovsky wound up lending the fledgling Russian government money "when it was desperate for money, " she said.

    CNN: Putin foe, exiled Russian oligarch found dead in UK home

  • The court heard that King, of Abercynon, was desperate for money after being turned down for 10 bank loans on the day of the killing.

    BBC: Bleddyn King

  • Lord Sugar said he was trying to help her out by offering her a new position because she had complained of being "desperate for money".

    BBC: Apprentice's Stella English loses Sugar dismissal case

  • David and Diana Murphy (Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore) are a young married couple, desperate for money, who vainly try their luck at the tables of Las Vegas.

    NEWYORKER: Indecent Proposal

  • Students desperate for tuition money are not likely to turn down a cash sale.

    ECONOMIST: Blade runners

  • Yet politicians, as ever desperate for more money that they can spend, keep on raising that tax.

    FORBES: The Problem With Green Taxation

  • Public officials have focused in recent years on the desperate need for money to repair thousands of bridges deemed structurally deficient, which typically means a major portion of the bridge is in poor condition or worse.

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  • The crux of the issue is whether a desperate plea for money that the court is hearing this week will undermine one of the great acts of financial alchemy in recent years: to wit, cheap financing for bad creditors.

    ECONOMIST: Steal industry

  • Note-jobs often involve lone gun men, desperate for drugs or money, who hand over a note demanding cash.

    ECONOMIST: Bank robberies

  • Many of his witnesses will be forced under oath to describe the desperate hunt for soft money, the special access given to donors with business before the government and the suspension of White House vetting rules designed to keep hustlers with deep pockets from making pitches on presidential time.

    CNN: Campaign Finance: The Show Begins

  • But he did have several billion dollars to spend, the money practically handed to him by Japanese investors desperate for promising companies in which to put money.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Asian Newsmaker 1999: Masayoshi Son--Page 1

  • At the moment, many publicity options for self-published authors rely on desperate people paying ridiculous sums of money for vaguely defined and often worthless services.

    FORBES: New York Times Reviews Self-Published Book

  • And, sooner or later, when those postponed debts must finally be paid, Russia will find itself in much the same place it has been until now: out of cash, and desperate for someone to lend it money.

    ECONOMIST: A detour or a derailment?

  • Nine months after evidence of foreign cash in U.S. politics surfaced in the last days of the 1996 campaign, Americans know that both Democrats and Republicans were so desperate for the unrestricted dole of "soft money" that they went overseas to find more.

    CNN: Campaign Finance: The Show Begins

  • Desperate for cash, Harvard Management went to outside money managers begging for a return of money it had expected to keep parked away for a long time.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • That was when Double Fine Adventure launched on Kickstarter, and immediately received more more money than Switzerland from gamers desperate for a return to the pointy, clicky goodness of Grim Fandango.

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  • He told police that he had been depressed and desperate and offered to work for free to repay the money.

    BBC: Northampton

  • Recall how in 2007, the "Paulbots" were everywhere: running up the numbers on every online poll they could find, generating one-day fundraising records in a desperate bid for national attention (they coined the word "money-bomb"), and creating massive amounts of voter-generated media on his behalf.

    CNN: Will his 'Paulbots' torpedo Ron Paul in Iowa?

  • But the conflict is particularly acute when the subjects of the research are vulnerable for instance, if they are mentally ill and confused, if they are poor or homeless and in need of money, or if they are seriously ill and desperate for any sort of help.

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  • What ties all of this together is the desperate need for growth in the real economy, and not simply in the money supply.

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  • Analysts stressed that the firm had a strong balance sheet and was making the strategic move to make more money from corporate loans, rather than in a desperate need for funds.

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  • Fourtou will probably be less candid with the public so as not to hinder his efforts to generate competitive auctions for Vivendi properties when most everyone knows the company is desperate to raise money.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The desperate are most likely professional runners of money, those without the luxury of waiting for their pitch.

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