11.   To be sure, many companies have decided to send their employees on more trips as the business outlook brightens.

12.   His outlook has brightened.

13.   The bullish case is that the outlook is brightening.

14.   The outlook had brightened.

15.   The U.S. Embassy report said analysts of the Singapore economy are unanimous in their prognosis that the economic outlook has brightened considerably since the beginning of the year.

16.   A positive world economic outlook brightened the prospects for wool farmers, ABARE said, but the Chinese economy would be crucial to demand levels.