11.   All along, though, WorldCom insisted that its books were clean and its business prospects clear.

12.   Bucking the upward trend, some debt-ridden companies fell on gloomy business prospects.

13.   Donnelly took three co-workers, six clients and two business prospects to the Ilion school, southeast of Utica.

14.   Evans Witt, the executive editor of the combined site, said it had better business prospects than its predecessors.

15.   For the past several years, Cuba has cultivated the world like an aggressive chamber of commerce, scouring for business prospects.

16.   Fund managers admit that sound business prospects for companies like Yizheng, Shanghai Petrochemical and truck maker Qingling Motors Co. may not spare China stocks from further declines.

17.   Green went to Hong Kong in October looking for business prospects.

18.   He is quick to dump companies that do not improve their operating results, or whose stock price outstrips their business prospects.

19.   He said, however, that there will be adjustments to the fund as the business prospects of companies change.

20.   He thinks spending time getting to know management only distracts him from accurate assessments of their business prospects.