31.   Instead of fostering improvement, critics charge, the massive reorganization has crippled a wobbly program and actually slowed benefits to often desperate people.

32.   It still boils down to a bunch of unhappy people desperate for simple-minded answers.

33.   Milling the lot were dozens of desperate people holding handmade signs seeking game tickets.

34.   My real identity as a writer was to tell stories about desperate people.

35.   Often, he says, desperate people of Mexican ancestry come by his thriving commercial complex in Sun Valley, northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

36.   Others, including Khanh, were young people desperate for a brighter future than they could imagine in Vietnam.

37.   People desperate for work do not have the time or the will to volunteer for churches or Boy Scouts or the United Way.

38.   Poor people, desperate people.

39.   Real estate brokers and con artists alike are well aware of how desperate people are to find a new home.

40.   She had a steady stream of SOS calls from desperate people who told of water-damaged homes, furniture and other property.