1.   Despite the improvements, it was hard to find anyone in North Philadelphia with rosy predictions of renewal.

2.   Of course, proponents of interactive TV have made rosy predictions before.

3.   Regulators say that securities fraud has migrated to the Internet because stocks can be propelled there with little more than effusive talk and rosy predictions.

4.   Such mistrust is likely to linger long after the currency is circulating, prompting many to cast serious doubts on rosy predictions of a truly unified Europe.

5.   These rosy predictions, after all, are only predictions.

6.   Well, the rosy predictions for domestic advertising spending just keep on coming from a leading industry forecaster.

7.   When such stocks drop, lawyers have filed suit, claiming investors were fraudulently lured to purchase the stocks by overly rosy predictions of performance.

8.   But business consultants, making rosy predictions that the good times would roll on forever, were more interested in closing deals rather than advising good business sense.

9.   But now, almost in a blink, those rosy predictions have faded.