However, this bitter medicine is the only recourse left for Greece, given its dire economic situation and bleak prospects.
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Without such price competition, the U.S. health care system faces bleak prospects.
Euroland is sick with endless sovereign debt and bank crises, unemployment near 10%, second quarter GDP down 0 .5% and bleak prospects as far as the eye can see.
This renewed growth will have to happen without much help from the housing sector, whose bleak prospects have been made worse by the humpty-dumpty scrambling of mortgage and foreclosure documents.
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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Given the bleak prospects for employment, the housing market, Europe, and little hope for meaningful and successful intervention from Treasury or the Fed, it is hard to fathom how the nascent economic recovery will somehow manage to gain momentum My belief is we will be in a recession within the next two or three quarters.
Banks are reluctant to revive lending in any big way because of the bleak economic prospects.
The changes come on the heels of a 5, 000 word New York Times story published in January, which looks at law school grads who have piled on debt to go to school and face bleak job prospects.
If the prospects seem bleak for savers, there is at least some good news.
But unless Malaita's leaders can control their unruly former militants, and assist Mr Morrell, the new police chief, in restoring law and order, the prospects are bleak.
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If earnings prospects remain bleak, they will not buy shares.
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.
His prospects remain bleak, but at least he has a bed to sleep in each night -- unlike so many of the other Afghan children who are surviving on the streets of Paris.
Nathan McCullum thumped the last ball of the innings for six to boost the total but New Zealand's prospects looked bleak when Mills over-stepped in his first over, allowing Butt a free hit which he crashed through the covers for four.
Legislative prospects were so bleak, the administration didn't even bother to introduce the Kyoto global warming treaty for ratification.
But you look out there now, and the prospects just look bleak.
Leamington's prospects are almost as bleak, after being bowled out for 126 at Barnt Green.
The prospects for investment look bleak, as the economy is entering a disturbing new phase of the credit crunch.
If such hawkish views prevail in Ankara, the prospects for a Cyprus settlement are bleak.
From all appearances, then, the prospects for the talks now look bleak.
Yet, even as evidence grows that there is a reasonable chance of economic recovery, the long-term prospects for the budget look as bleak as ever.
It could happen at any moment, crushing what remains of Santana's fragile career prospects and destroying the Mets' already bleak chances this season.
From the parapets of the Pew Center and other such watchtowers of serious discourse, the prospects for maintaining an informed electorate look bleak indeed.
Yet conspicuously absent from Mr. Osborne's bleak assessment of the U.K.'s prospects was any mention of the one thing that has dominated the policy debate for the past year: the fear the economy is turning Japanese, weighed down by so much bad debt that it is incapable of moving forward.
Second, the prospects for political change in Belarus may not be as bleak as some believe.
When you start to look at the prospects of development workflows shifting around 3D games, you have to say that they are fairly bleak.
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