21.   The poor climate for IPOs comes amid a bleak outlook for the Singapore economy as a whole.

22.   Through her, we meet the other characters, mostly young women with similarly bleak outlooks on the world.

23.   Traders took falling stocks as evidence of the bleak economic outlook.

24.   With such a bleak outlook and competition becoming more and more fierce, carmakers are busy reducing costs and capacity in order to maintain profit growth.

25.   Patients with a bleak outlook, for example, could be given experimental drugs or a bone marrow transplant.

26.   A bleak outlook for U.S. exports sent wheat futures plunging Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

27.   A spokesman for the association said sales of imported autos were squeezed as consumers continued to tighten their purse strings because of the bleak economic outlook.

28.   Corn futures tumbled Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade based on the bleak outlook for corn sales portrayed a day earlier by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

29.   Dealers said revised economic indicators agreed between the Indonesian government and the International Monetary Fund have forced investors to realize the bleak economic outlook for the year.

30.   Hong Kong shares extended their losses Thursday, with the benchmark index falling for the fifth consecutive session amid a bleak economic outlook.