BBC News was salivating to attack itself: a remarkable sign of the priceless singularity of the BBC.
Foreign express-delivery firms are salivating over the market but FedEx and UPS, for example, have been granted only limited licences for domestic delivery.
The Iraqi regime is not as entrenched as it seems, insisted Shia Islamists and secular nationalists alike, doubtless salivating at the prospect of the $97m that America has said it will spend on groups trying to bring down Mr Hussein.
And still they keep coming: on May 1st the Wall Street Journal reported that AT&T had approached DirecTV about a possible bid worth more than $40 billion.Yet even investment bankers, who are salivating at the prospect of the fees they may earn, are not sure if this spike is the real deal.
Almost a third of the issue was in the form of 30-year bonds, an indication that there is plenty of appetite for long-dated corporate debt.That Verizon's debt was issued to help finance an acquisition the purchase of a minority stake in the group's wireless operations has bankers salivating.
Nearly half of those polled felt that she had not been honest.All this has the Republicans salivating.
Other leading Social Democrats are salivating over ministerial appointments.Werner Weidenfeld, a professor at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University, thinks that the FDP may yet get into the federal parliament, in part because its Bavarian fiasco mobilised its latent base.
Predictably, Washington politicians are already salivating at the news.
THIS time last year investors were salivating over Apple's stock.
So the firm understandably bristles at the public perception that partners are salivating for their multi-million dollar pay-offs.Instead, the decision to go public is couched in strategic terms.
Foreign fixed-income investors have shown an insatiable appetite for Brazilian paper in recent weeks, salivating at near-13% yields.
