1.   Among a group of Cone Mills retirees in Greensboro who gather for lunch once a month, the outlook seems bleak.

2.   As a result, the currency may rebound here and there, but the long-term outlook seems grim indeed.

3.   As has been the trend for some years, the outlook for department stores seemed particularly bleak.

4.   All things considered, the outlook for platinum seems bright.

5.   But the outlook has not seemed bright.

6.   But the outlook seems to be improving.

7.   It caused the outlook to seem less than shipshape for the San Francisco company that has a stake in the digital presentation of many premier sporting events.

8.   It is too early to say, but the union outlook seems more realistic.

9.   So the outlook seems to be for a gradual rise in prices and a lot of political arguments about the impact of oil deals.

10.   That outlook seems to have been prescient.