61.   Yet a tax-cut effort died last year and prospects look no better now.

62.   With the economy now slowing sharply, that prospect looks less certain than it did just a month or so ago.

63.   Yet the insurers say it is hard to remember a time when prospects looked better.

64.   You buy them when the prospects look bleakest, and you sell them when business looks the brightest.

65.   Prospects are looking increasingly shaky because of arguments between the West and China and India over the scope of the deal.

66.   Prospects looked better this season with the signings of drivers Jos Verstappen and Domenico Schiattarella.

67.   Although the prospects looked grim for the government, its collapse was not a foregone conclusion.

68.   At that time, Yeltsin was lagging in the opinion polls and his re-election prospects looked dim.

69.   Business prospects still looked good for the company, president He Ke-Rang said, since sustained demand from China was projected.

70.   But prospects did not look good for a deal.