11.   Hopes for a tech suffered another blow this past week when Ciena Inc. and Dell Computer Corp. became the latest sector bellwethers to report weak results and pessimistic forecasts.

12.   It actually hurts me to have these pessimistic forecasts.

13.   Nintendo has spent the last month trying to counter pessimistic forecasts by financial analysts.

14.   The bank also pointed to slowing sales in Asia and the recent massacre of tourists in Luxor, Egypt, as reasons for the more pessimistic forecast.

15.   The government proposals included an optimistic and a pessimistic forecast.

16.   Toshiba attributed the more pessimistic forecast to a rise in the yen against the dollar and weak demand from companies in Japan for its computer systems.

17.   But the figures did not surprise the market, and are not even as bad as the most pessimistic forecasts had been.

18.   Dealers seem to have overcome for the moment the pessimistic forecasts of experts who are visiting production regions.

19.   Wilson said the copper market was headed for a period of oversupply, but that this would be smaller and of shorter duration than some pessimistic forecasts.

20.   It came on the heels of a pessimistic forecast from Secretary of State Warren Christopher about prospects of winning an Israeli-Syrian peace accord any time soon.