1.   A forecast of rain and thunderstorms dimmed the prospects for launching the space shuttle Endeavour on Thursday, but technicians continued to prepare for a liftoff.

2.   But the vote against cloning does not necessarily dim the prospects for Congress to approve federally financed stem cell research even should Bush come out against it.

3.   Chilean stocks fell after a forecast of higher-than-expected inflation in February dimmed prospects of a further cut in interest rates.

4.   French consumer prices staged their largest increase in more than five years in March, dimming the prospect for further cuts in official interest rates, economists said.

5.   Forecasts of higher-than-expected inflation are dimming prospects for a further cut in interest rates.

6.   He and other analysts said financial and economic turmoil in Asia had dimmed prospects for American exports to that region while making Asian products cheaper here.

7.   His subsequent notoriety does not appear to have dimmed his prospects.

8.   Indeed, the failure to protect the weak has dimmed the prospects for rapid reform and given new political life to the old Communist elite.

9.   Initially, budget considerations dimmed those prospects.

10.   It would certainly dim prospects for a recovery in the Asian financial crisis.