More surprising still, they might prove part of the solution to the Soviet Union's desperate economic problems.

"He cannot justify requiring the public to pay for political campaigns in a time when there are such desperate problems that the city faces."

The purpose of civil rights leaders is to focus on desperate problems and show what can and must be done.

He was too much occupied with his own desperate problem.

Government officials insisted schools with desperate problems would still get money.

The view from Hempstead, for example, is that street gangs are a desperate problem, requiring urgent attention.

And even if I did not - desperate problems may require desperate remedies.

I think we have desperate problems of law and order.

We should ensure that these people are not forced to return to their countries if that is going to create desperate problems for them.

His mind was tired, for he had worked over his desperate problem from every angle that he could think of.