1.   And Maria Fedulova expects that more mothers will have to do what she did on a bleak January day four years ago.

2.   Bleak gray days are spent combing spring seed catalogs, organizing tools and putting visions of garden changes onto sketch paper.

3.   Bleak gray days are spent combing spring seed catalogs, organizing tools and putting visions of garden changes onto sktech paper.

4.   But they thrived, and the press and newsreel crews -- drawn by a bright tale amid the bleak days of the Depression -- descended in droves.

5.   Ethanol skeptics see that as a bleak day for the environment and the economy.

6.   In these bleak days for Middle East peace, there is just a quiet trickle of Egyptians coming to Israel.

7.   It was a bleak day to re-enter the world, with sleet lashing the northern suburbs and the sky low and gray.

8.   These are bleak days for the Tokyo stock market.

9.   Thursday, on a typically bleak autumn day, Microsoft said that yes, indeed, they do have an Internet strategy.

10.   What better way to help them get through the bleak days of March?