Saddled with pricey real estate and inventory, many retail chains face a bleak future.
Analysts think it has a bleak future so long as it tries to master so many trades.
Communications watchdog Ofcom last week warned Channel 4 faced a bleak future unless a deal could be reached.
Having dedicated their lives so completely to their companies, many sacked sararimen can imagine only a bleak future.
But the first two industries started withering away because of cheap foreign manufacturers, and NCNB faced a bleak future confined to North Carolina.
But it suggests a bleak future for countries locked into the monetary straitjacket of the euro, in the absence of easier monetary policy by the European Central Bank.
The islands' traditional cash crop, cloves, faces a bleak future.
In a recent report, Jan Loeys, an economist at JPMorgan, predicted a bleak future for the funds in which the banks that have become so dependent on them fight back.
But the fear is that if this type of deal is allowed to undermine actual cuts in emissions, they and we will face a bleak future in our overheating planet.
And given the correlation between rising investment and rising wages, rather than buy into a bleak future as though today's struggles are a crystal ball into the future, we must ask what drives the investment that would enhance our wages.
Yet, even as the optimism of a year ago far outpaced the reality of the marketplace, so too now it is hard to find anyone out there in the media or the general public who sees anything but a bleak future for e-Commerce.
At this point, and with a bleak future ahead as things stand, there is at least the opportunity to talk about something that could actually address the issue instead of going through the same thing next year and dealing with another debt-ceiling crisis.
The agency says the men painted a positive picture of Countrywide's risk management and underwriting practices and made optimistic statements about its business prospects to investors while privately acknowledging that risk management was lax, losses were mounting and the business faced a bleak future.
And it helped him imagine something else: a bleak, war-ravaged future version of Earth.
Logical thinkers feel that given all of the negative economic events we have experienced over the past 11 years and the bleak prospects for a sustainable future recovery, allocation to stocks is dangerous at best.
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Transmeta , the little semiconductor company that began life with a high-profile bang, went whimpering to Piper Jaffray on Thursday to decide how to deal with its bleak future in the face of a hostile takeover bid from its largest shareholder.
Standing at the shoreline, pondering "the boredom that drove me here, " Hutchison finds himself wedged between the dashed hopes of his past and a future where prospects are bleak.
He said I'd never make a living as a skateboarder, so it seemed to him that my future was bleak.
He continued riding point-to-point for two years under the guidance of Jackie Wing, but his future looked bleak when the stables were struck down by a virus.
But while his future appears increasingly bleak, few believe the military would allow a former chief to be thrown in jail or assassinated by militants, he adds.
The future of the Alliance, never a particularly homogeneous grouping, now looks bleak.
On Wednesday, popular sites staged a black-out to protest two anti-piracy bills which resulted in over a dozen politicians pulling their support, leaving the future of SOPA and PIPA looking bleak.
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SingTel, which had been a monopoly a few years longer than HKT, had fared slightly better, but its future looked as bleak as HKT's if not bleaker.
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Without a sustained upturn in the gold price, the future for South Africa's gold miners looks bleak.
As many of the animals had been rescued and taken into the centre as a final option, Ms Morgan fears if they do have to close the future is "rather bleak" for some of them.
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