61.   That has led some skeptics to suggest that dire predictions about the fate of the rain forest have been greatly exaggerated.

62.   The browser market-share numbers have borne out the dire predictions.

63.   The dire predictions, including television commercials depicting job losses as companies leave the state, are working.

64.   The dire predictions of Nostradamus.

65.   The proceedings lasted a week, and focused mostly on whether the dire predictions being made about Wilcox were scientifically sound.

66.   The only things in ample supply are dire predictions.

67.   The start of each new academic year is heralded with dire predictions about the public schools and alarming visions of cutbacks, shortages and bureaucratic ineptitude.

68.   The summit this week is being held with dire predictions of violence should it fail.

69.   The year the economy eluded dire predictions of a severe slowdown and continued humming as we entered the next millennium.

70.   There were dire predictions of hardship when rent control was abolished.