1.   Biotechnology companies with dim prospects found financing.

2.   After Wednesday, the already dim prospects looked far bleaker.

3.   But there are dim prospects that aid will arrive anytime soon.

4.   Dim prospects for the economy have been reflected in the recent decline of both the yen and Japanese stocks.

5.   Dim prospects for the economy have been reflected in Japanese stocks.

6.   Despite dim prospects for a sizable infusion of money, conservation needs are not being ignored.

7.   Higher interest rates hurt the value of bonds and dim prospects for company earnings, making stocks less attractive.

8.   In addition, many parts of the country have been hit by a drought blamed on El Nino, offering dim prospects for good crops.

9.   In either case, the homeless people usually return to a life without homes, without steady work and with dim prospects of finding either.

10.   In this sense, too, Lincoln Center looked forward, toward the dim prospect of a city with a limited capacity to plan its future.