1.   Many workers in the same situation look at the bleak job market, pull up stakes, and move.

2.   Moreover, the discouraging prospect of a bleak job future is often compounded by other stresses during the job search, and on the job.

3.   Part of that holding-pattern mentality is driven by the fairly bleak job market for college graduates.

4.   The fallout from the December marriage of First Chicago Corp. and Detroit-based NBD Bancorp could add to the already bleak job picture.

5.   The relentlessly bleak job picture was central to the election defeat of French conservatives and the victory of Socialists last June.

6.   As far as retailer Li is considered, the bleak job market outside China is good news for him.

7.   The bleak job outlook was particularly harsh for young people.

8.   Downside risks included the possibility that consumers, reacting to the bleak jobs outlook, might opt for increased saving rather than spending.

9.   Thousands of soldiers from both sides are dumping their weapons at UN-run assembly points and pressing desperately for demobilisation despite bleak job prospects in their ravaged land.