11.   They say the airlift has brought new hope to people who would otherwise have faced a bleak future.

12.   Bleak future... former drug addicts say cuts in funding will cost lives.

13.   His marriage has broken up, he rarely sees his teenage daughter and he faces a bleak future.

14.   And the tribe has been facing a bleak future with infant mortality rates more closely resembling those of sub-Saharan Africa than the United States.

15.   And with the bleak future all baseball fans face, we need all the chills we can get.

16.   Another sure thing is that the polar bear and other creatures face a bleak future if their habitat keeps liquefying.

17.   As a business reporter, I had pretty much made a career out of coaxing blue-collar workers into discussing their bleak futures.

18.   After four decades in the business and facing a bleak future, the Eisenstadts have sold their corner lot to a developer and plan to close this month.

19.   Air France is a big question mark, as is Alitalia of Italy, while Iberia of Spain faces a bleak future in the view of many analysts.

20.   Diana Lomont saw a bleak economic future while living in Hawaii two years ago.