But there is a familiar-looking dark cloud on the horizon.

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The sky would go gray, with dark clouds building on the horizon.

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But if HMV's executives had looked out from that luxury beach hotel in Marbella, they might just have seen a few dark clouds forming on the horizon.

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Were he the Fed chairman in 1998, the man who chose to tighten monetary policy when inflation was less than 1% would no doubt be drawing attention to dark clouds on the economic horizon.

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Wall Street guru Bob Brusca said recently that there were no dark clouds on the US economic horizon ... then thought a minute and said, but for oil.

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Still, dark clouds loom, as ever, on the horizon.

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