The retail outlook isn't totally bleak, especially if the economy improves.
On the other side, things weren't all that bleak despite the disappointment of being done and matching a season-low for points.
Jerry Nickelsburg, an economist at University of California, Los Angeles, said that considering measures like home foreclosures, the downturn hasn't been as bleak in Beverly Hills as other cities.
Things didn't always look so bleak for the small biotechnology company.
The backdrop is Nottingham's Clifton Estate, once the biggest council housing estate in Europe, and Bugg doesn't flinch from painting a bleak picture of the area.
And I don't want to paint a falsely bleak picture, actually, you know, we're making lots of progress.
The bleak surroundings don't dampen spirits: Some 2, 000 people have shown up, many in cars rigged with speakers on the hoods to pump out Gypsy pop at full blast.
For someone in his early twenties to have graduated summa cum laude from Amherst, to have been given a Michener grant, and to have published, one year out of Iowa City, an unremittingly bleak villanelle in the T.
Many look back sadly on their lost childhood and are determined to make sure their kids won't have to endure anything like those bleak years.
Legislative prospects were so bleak, the administration didn't even bother to introduce the Kyoto global warming treaty for ratification.
Critelli insists the bleak outlook for snail mail doesn't mean Pitney Bowes can't spurt ahead.
For those who can't steal from children, avoid recession news or escape their own bleak realities, Marlin Potash, a New York City psychologist of 30 years, was inspired to step into the blogosphere for the first time.
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