41.   Barring a recession, her outlook is sunny.

42.   Baseball has not compiled figures for last year, but Commissioner Bud Selig believes the outlook is so bleak that he has talked about merging small-market franchises.

43.   Bergen encourages managers to be open with employees, even if the outlook is dim.

44.   Bonds and stocks have faltered, the economic outlook is for more steady growth and inflation remains quiescent.

45.   A better financial outlook is one possibility.

46.   A better job outlook is good news for Trang Nguyen, a sophomore at the California State University at Northridge.

47.   A Japanese government report showed the economic outlook is still cloudy.

48.   A decade ago the outlook was bleak.

49.   A number of companies, including Kellogg on Friday, have warned that the near-term outlook is not all that positive.

50.   A month earlier, the inflation outlook was more serene.