81.   Despite dire predictions, the economy kept growing at a healthy clip.

82.   Despite dire predictions of skyrocketing unemployment, joblessness in Russia is only gradually increasing, a top labor official said Thursday.

83.   Farm lenders made dire predictions about crop producers in southeastern Nebraska, southern Iowa, northern Missouri and northeastern Kansas.

84.   Federal officials have sought to counter such dire predictions.

85.   Gone are the long faces, dire predictions and talk of economic malaise.

86.   He ridiculed Republicans for their dire predictions about his first-term economic plan, a blueprint that he said has led to soaring surpluses instead of deficits.

87.   He attributed the dire prediction to damaged paddy fields and failed crops in the long drought last year.

88.   It was a day for dire economic predictions about the Communists as well.

89.   Many people had issued dire predictions of vote fraud before the first round.

90.   Patten said dire predictions of an increasingly unsafe world can be averted with diligence, cooperation and communication.