21.   Facing a bleak future, the government of Rwanda is, for the first time, forging a national policy for women, which may include inheritance reforms.

22.   Gingrich is energizing the GOP base to avoid a bleak future.

23.   He is a rebellious time traveler from what he describes as a fairly bleak future for the human race.

24.   Last year, suspecting that basic research at Bellcore had a bleak future, Chung left the company to take a teaching post at the University of Pennsylvania.

25.   Prince Jefri would seem to have a bleak future in Brunei.

26.   Suffering from cystic fibrosis, Misty Laird faced a bleak future earlier this year because of her rapidly deteriorating lungs.

27.   The film genuflects to Central Park, too, making it a mostly mournful character, presaging the bleak future facing the two old-timers.

28.   The panel of seven scientists, including three Nobel laureates, painted a bleak future for life on Earth if temperatures rise.

29.   The others will follow in the months ahead, representing a bleak future for the financial and other service industries.

30.   The small gains do little to make up for a bleak economic future.