New goals will be set after the 2000 census, with the county then playing a desperate game of catch-up.

Now she played the best piece she had in this desperate game.

He was playing a desperate game, and there must be no slips.

He was a criminal, engaged in a desperate game.

It is a stake for which a man might well play a desperate game.

I am playing a desperate game for all of us, but I must do it alone.

It must be great wealth to justify the desperate game.

But it was a desperate game, and he knew he could not long keep up the deception.

"This was a desperate game for them," he said, "and they approached it in that manner."

Nobody ought to have known better than himself that the first cast of dice had been already thrown long ago in a most desperate game.