1.   Also clouding the outlook for coming small company offerings are the performances turned in by recent arrivals to the Italian Stock Exchange.

2.   Also clouding the outlook is a government plan to sell shares in Indian Oil Corp. and Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd., the international telecommunications operator, Mittra said.

3.   At the same time, political and economic instability in the former Soviet Union cloud its outlook.

4.   Both of these moves have clouded the outlook for the company in Brazil.

5.   A strong dollar clouded the outlook for profits for U.S. companies with large overseas operations.

6.   But the news last month of a chiseled budget has clouded the outlook for American skiers.

7.   But this outlook is clouded by uncertainty about the direction of the economy and by fourth-quarter results for the industry.

8.   Computer-related stocks played that role for much of this bull market, but their outlook is clouded by the problems in Asia, he said.

9.   Continuing uncertainties over the strength of consumer demand, centered on the pace of economic recovery and the potential for further threats to national security, cloud the outlook.

10.   Democrats also now will control the committees, and that could cloud the outlook for many of the proposed Bush initiatives on energy and missile defense.