1.   Bleak times, you say?

2.   A look at the bleak times ahead and what it means for U.S.-Russian relations.

3.   Aides to both said it would be unseemly, during such bleak times, to engage in politics as usual.

4.   Even today, the memory of carob kisses and solid licorice Easter bunnies causes an involuntary shudder in all who lived through those bleak times.

5.   He also guided the city through bleak financial times without cutting key services.

6.   He is irrepressible even in these bleak times.

7.   In those bleak times, the truth was a dangerous, forbidden luxury, even in this sanctuary.

8.   In the not-so-distant past, defensive shares in electric utilities, telecommunications companies and tobacco companies were good bets for bleak times.

9.   It has been a bleak time for bank stocks.

10.   Just one year into his tenure as chairman and chief executive, Ivester finds himself leading Coke through extraordinarily bleak times.