81.   In conversations, she had a desperate need to make sure people believed her.

82.   In Japan, layoffs are slow in coming despite a desperate need to cut costs in industry after industry.

83.   In desperate need of points in their race to the playoffs, the MetroStars were the better team throughout the game.

84.   In desperate need of some suspense, some interest, some reason to believe the New Jersey Nets actually can offer the Los Angeles Lakers a challenge.

85.   In desperate need of a victory, a team that Van Gundy had said was teetering fell off the cliff in the first quarter tonight.

86.   In fact, Lepage exhibits in this piece an almost desperate need to top himself.

87.   Inner-city teen-agers are in desperate need of structure and guidance.

88.   It could have been a very funny comedy, based on teen extremes, flogged to a frenzy by their desperate need to appear interesting, although vacuous.

89.   It bespeaks a desperate need for validation that verges on the pathetic.

90.   It is also an important one for both teams, who lost their opening matches and are in desperate need of victory.