11.   Attention, all you desperate people out there.

12.   Aid workers speculated that the Pakistani authorities closed the gate because they feared word of their earlier generosity would draw even larger numbers of desperate people.

13.   But in the future we are not likely to know about desperate people like Ms. Kasinga.

14.   But it also attracts those who see it as a venture that helps desperate people with AIDS or cancer.

15.   But stories of the thousands of desperate people fleeing the island have dominated conversation for weeks.

16.   But the welfare recipients are not the only people desperate for day care.

17.   Dealing with it, and preserving the lives of hundreds of thousands of desperate people, are no less important than crippling the Serbian military in Kosovo.

18.   Desperate people are the most vulnerable to quackery, he says.

19.   Desperate people do desperate things.

20.   Desperate people dug through the muddy rubble of former stores, looking for canned goods.