With more than a decade's experience reporting urban crime, the "penny press" realized the public's voracious need for astounding war news.

He has been to China twice since August and plans three trips this year, partly in hopes of finding new ventures that address the country's voracious need for energy.

To each, however, Ms. Smith brings her penetrating eye and a voracious need to know what lurks in the depths of the human heart.

Farmers now look hopefully to the Soviet Union, where a poor crop has left that nation with a voracious need for imports, which could raise prices of American exports.

"What feeds the growth is a voracious need for information," Mr. Huey said.

In turn, there is fierce network competition for celebrity authors because of a plethora of news magazine programs with a voracious need for material.

She trembled as she felt her resolve give way to the voracious need within her.

What are they going to do when their voracious needs are unmet by their parents?

On Letterman, Leno and other late-night talk shows, the voracious need for topical material means that conservatives, liberals and moderates are all treated with irreverence.

What flourishes instead, satisfying this voracious need for humor, is a free-verse poem of a peculiar sort.