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'WHIFF OF DESPERATION' IN POST-CHRISTMAS SALES WORST SEASON IN YEARS IS FORCING RETAILERS INTO EVERYTHING GOES MODE.(Business)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); Dec 27, 2008; ; 700+ Words ...spending, and the old retail rules - such...a little bit of a whiff of desperation out there," said...compared with the same weekend of 2007...percent from the same period last year...If you find the same item elsewhere for...
Football: Lenny will be a Sellick mind reader; HE'S ON RIGHT WAVELENGTH.(Sport)
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); Apr 6, 2008; 700+ Words ...Celtic seems like desperation. The biggest sop...last weekend's Old Firm defeat. For...Strachan does the same every day. Looks...he tried to do the same thing, approaching...People said the whiff of desperation seeped from Big Eck...
San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Ann Killion column: Sabean's strategy grows old, like players.
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA); Dec 7, 2006; 700+ Words ...reminder of the old days when Sabean...Their look is the same old, same old. Quite literally...hanging on to the same old philosophy...their tactics. "Older and experienced...Molina (at 32, the oldest of the Molina brothers...Giants have the whiff of ...
Fascinating stuff with Bonds and the Giants.
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA); Dec 6, 2006; 700+ Words ...reminder of the old days when Sabean...Their look is the same old, same old. Quite literally...hanging on to the same old philosophy...their tactics. "Older and experienced...Molina (at 32, the oldest of the Molina brothers...Giants have the whiff of ...
Sonics not so super of late; Seattle shows vulnerable side.(SPORTS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); Mar 9, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...there was a whiff of desperation about the Sonics...however, the desperation pervades the team...Sonics aren't old in a Utah Jazz...players are 30 or older (a few much older). They have...Sonics now face the same rigors of this...
Violence, hysteria and plenty of sheep REVIEW
The Sunday Herald; May 15, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...manure was overpowered by a strong whiff of desperation. Some woman from Dallas? Two blondes...Blair who, to give the 74-year-old his due, is a true pro, gadding...alien, they're really just the same as us: vain, shallow, selfish...
...screenwriting team - carries the whiff of desperation. ...
Naperville Sun, The (IL); May 3, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...screenwriting team - carries the whiff of desperation. Bottom line: Add new directors...Apatow ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin") offers another...Last year, people asked the same thing about Steve Carell, the 40-year-old virgin himself. (June 1...
THE BROODY BUNCH; HOME GIRLS: WHAT THEY REALLY REALLY WANT IS TO SETTLE DOWN WITH A BOUNCING BABY AND A TIDY KITCHEN.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); Oct 23, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...them all, 27-year-old Zoe Ball, yesterday...m not looking for the same kind of excitement...me. As you grow a bit older, most people tend to...Even my 18-year- old niece says there is...that even the merest whiff of desperation can put a man right off...
THE RORSCHACH CANDIDATE.(presidential candidate George W. Bush)
The American Prospect; Jan 31, 2000; ; 700+ Words ...don't ask, don't tell" The same might be said of Bush's own ideological...interests and from his father's old fundraising network. The Brobdingnagian...mammoth fundraising totals lurks a whiff of desperation. Establishment Republicans...
Lieberman Goes Far Afield for Approval
The Washington Post; Feb 1, 2004; ; 700+ Words ...presidential campaign was giving off a whiff of desperation last week when it trumpeted an endorsement...with said attributes. At about the same time he was being made the hero...aide Bobby Jindal, the 32-year-old Indian American who barely lost...
My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad.(Movie review)
Daily Variety; Feb 20, 2008; ; 700+ Words ...Suha Arraf, and working with the same FrenchGerman co-producing team...border, where handsome 45-year-old widow Salma Zidane (Abbass...Services (yet), but there's a whiff of desperation around this project, which continues...
Playing to Their Strengths.(newspaper publishing)
American Journalism Review; Apr 1, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...newspaper industry itself. There's a whiff of desperation surrounding some of the frantic...company is Times Mirror--the very same Times Mirror headed by Mark H...talent by emphasizing some of the old values of newspapers--such as...
Love 30? Not under-the-gun Pistol Pete.(The Dallas Morning News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; Aug 26, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...names. Hence the whiff of desperation attached to his presence...as a 19-year-old, but no such fairy...Marat Safin and an old friend named Andre...don't harbor the same "fear factor there...the 18-year-old former Austinite...
Don't be greedy, Edinburgh
Evening Times; Jul 22, 2004; 700+ Words ...licence fee for the BBC. The poor old Beeb doesn't seem to know what...Outen on Saturdays has the real whiff of desperation. The BBC is something Britain should...article, 63% of Scots feel the same way. I tried to change my telephone...
Keep cool in the theater this summer with these hot hits|Sizzlin' Summer Sequels
Courier News (Elgin, IL); May 18, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...screenwriting team - carries the whiff of desperation. Bottom line: Add new directors...Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) offers another sex...Last year, people asked the same thing about Steve Carell, the 40-year-old virgin himself. (June 1...
Believe the hype
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); May 23, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...screenwriting team - carries the whiff of desperation. Bottom line: Add new directors...Apatow ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin") offers another...Last year, people asked the same thing about Steve Carell, the 40-year-old virgin himself. (June 1...
Writing the North: The Contemporary Novel in Northern Ireland. (Reviews).
Studies in the Novel; Dec 22, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...the bombing season again," remarks his old Belfast editor, while in the provincial...Catholic pub in Crossmaheart had "the same aura of barely suppressed violence, the same whiff of desperation brought on by poverty laced with alcoholism...
192 SINGLES AND ALBUMS REVIEWS.(192)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); Jun 5, 2003; 700+ Words ...s as cheesy as a pair of week-old smelly socks. It's got radio...Shania, but it's not nearly in the same league as Still The One or From...Bar, but there's the definite whiff of desperation as the track at times sounds as...
RENEE MAN-EATER.
The Daily Mail (London, England); Sep 1, 2007; 700+ Words ...seaside resort. At the same time, however...say the 38-year-old Miss Zellweger...The 53-year-old (and still stunning...Brinkley and 65-year-old McCartney, who has...this unmistakable whiff of desperation that, despite her...
A Director Promotes the Wharton School; Terence Davies, Finding Modern Maladies in 'The House of Mirth'
The Washington Post; Jan 14, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...The 55-year-old Davies first read...precarious and a whiff of desperation about her, Lily...continues. "It's the same group mentality of...s time felt the same about Lily." And...using its grand old mansions and even...
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