11.  And he is selling other assets in a desperate effort to raise cash.

12.  And hotels, stores, and other retailers have cut prices in a desperate effort to attract business.

13.  And, in a desperate effort to keep their room clean, I recently hung a sign on their door.

14.  Another scenario is that Kennedy lowered the landing gear in a desperate effort to slow his plane.

15.  As a result, the government is spending a desperate effort to reverse a cycle of fire and weed invasion in Nevada.

16.  As its financial markets teetered on the brink of collapse, Russia launched a desperate effort Wednesday to defend the ruble and stem the exodus of foreign investors.

17.  A desperate effort.

18.  All I do is take it out in public places in a ludicrously desperate effort to appear hip and connected.

19.  Call it a desperate effort to return to those Ozzie and Harriet days when one out of eleven state residents was an immigrant.

20.  Chechen rebels were raking a column of Russian militiamen with machine-gun fire and mortars when the militia made a desperate effort to save what was left of its men.