11.   With prospects bleak for a turnaround, many buyers are reluctant to make large new commitments before the market steadies its drop.

12.   With the prospects bleak and the payoff minimal, why is the school pursuing the appeal?

13.   Others hoped for a little prosperity after years of political turmoil and bleak economic prospects.

14.   Bleak near-term prospects for the domestic economy and corporate earnings weighed on prices, brokers said.

15.   But he plans to focus on the domestic market and sees only bleak prospects for exports.

16.   But many are still holding out, despite increasingly bleak prospects for the future.

17.   But the bleak prospect of the continuing Kosovo conflict made them realistic.

18.   He deplored the bleak prospects for bolstering food supplies in the city.

19.   They contend the broader import protection is needed because the steel industry faces such bleak economic prospects from a flood of imported steel.

20.   U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who spearheaded the U.S. peace effort, told reporters after the agreement was initialed that Karadzic and Mladic faced bleak prospects.