1.   Business prospects brightened last month.

2.   As the year moved on, profit prospects brightened.

3.   Additionally, the Mariner prospects are brightening because they will soon score impressively on a new cable TV deal.

4.   But that is beginning to change as Republican prospects brighten, Stuckey added.

5.   Colombia, and the stability of the region, should not have to go down this desolate road just as peace prospects are brightening.

6.   Kansas City and Chicago wheat futures prices closed higher Wednesday as export prospects brightened.

7.   Now, after stumbling with an expansion into the brokerage business, prospects have brightened again.

8.   Prospects had also brightened for Cobb.

9.   Prospects have brightened for farmers intending to plant wheat or hay in coming weeks and months.

10.   So-called cyclical stocks held up relatively better because their prospects brighten as the economy improves.