21.  Cola and a British physician, Richard Lower, try the procedure on the older Blundy in a desperate effort to save her life.

22.  In a desperate effort to save their restaurant, the brothers prepare a grand feast for a famous person, hoping his notoriety will make their place popular.

23.  Indeed, in a desperate effort to regain market confidence, President Fernando de la Rua has called for draconian spending cuts.

24.  It would be a desperate effort to change their minds.

25.  Leaders of the divided opposition to President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia are making another, slightly desperate effort to create a common front around the issue of early elections.

26.  Little change, despite desperate efforts by both of them to probe for advantage.

27.  Last week, the executives of Thinking Machines were shuttling across the country to talk to potential investors or buyers, in a desperate effort to avoid bankruptcy.

28.  Many questioned the timing of the attack, suspecting that Clinton bombed Iraq in a desperate effort to save his political life.

29.  New York City is cutting core services like sanitation and schools in a desperate effort to ease its budget crisis.

30.  Occasionally, that results in desperate efforts to strike pay dirt by breaking out of the old regimen.