21.   Among major industries, the outlook for autos is positive.

22.   Although the outlook is bright for corporate earnings, economic growth and inflation, some money managers are concerned that stock prices already reflect the most optimistic outcome.

23.   An identical bill has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. James Jeffords, a retiring Vermont Republican, but the outlook there is much murkier.

24.   Analysts said the outlook was unlikely to improve soon.

25.   Analysts agreed, and said the nine-month outlook was within their expectations.

26.   Analysts said the outlook is bright for an interim agreement in October.

27.   Analysts said they were surprised by how bleak the earnings outlook was.

28.   Analysts noted that the economic outlook was not necessarily as bleak as the slowdown in orders at Motorola and other chipmakers might suggest.

29.   And if that is to be the dominating force in parliament, the outlook may not be too terrible.

30.   And the best-case outlook is that South Korea will respond to the medicine the way Mexico did.