1.   Despite the bleak financial news, the US economy continued to demonstrate substantial strength as it enters its eighth year of expansion.

2.   Given such bleak news, some fans thought the virus had killed their idol.

3.   Her brother had to deliver the bleak news.

4.   Investors in foreign funds got some good news in the third quarter after months of uniformly bleak news.

5.   Movie studio executives vacationing in Hawaii, New York and various western ski resorts faced some bleak news over the holiday season.

6.   Robert Rubin, who had just been sworn in as treasury secretary, followed Clinton into the Oval Office to deliver some bleak news.

7.   STOCKS GAIN DESPITE GLOOMY DATA Stocks picked up some modest gains as investors looked beyond bleak economic news.

8.   This bleak news should keep the Bank of Japan from raising interest rates any time this year, economists said.

9.   Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin followed Clinton into the Oval Office to deliver some bleak news.

10.   Amid otherwise bleak news of fuel shortages and labor tumult, Nigerians this week had eight reasons to smile.