1.   Horror stories, complaints and gloomy predictions are plentiful.

2.   There have been some gloomy predictions about the economy recently.

3.   The gloomy prediction is made by Mr Clive Owen, chief executive of Darlington borough council, in a report to councillors on Tuesday.

4.   Bob Prechter is best known in financial circles these days for gloomy predictions during a record bull market.

5.   But he largely avoided public squabbles and had a knack for stating his gloomy predictions in a pleasant way.

6.   But his gloomy predictions frightened successive Chinese Communist leaders into the most outrageous population policy the world has ever seen.

7.   But Ms. Cohen of Goldman, Sachs contends that the gloomy predictions are overstated, partly because a new formulation is at work in corporate America.

8.   But the gloomy predictions proved wrong.

9.   Davis has seen gloomy predictions regarding the future of pop music before.

10.   Driving this euphoria is a conviction among investors that gloomy economic predictions have been overstated.