If the future looks bleak and uncertain, people are likely to be more cautious - especially with their money.

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Its future looks bleak, unless what remains of the company can capture the narrow slice of the business that remains interested in physical music as a novelty.

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Now the future looks bleak.

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The future looks bleak.

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If conservatism is inherently a reactionary movement, ever in opposition to the relentless forward march of time, the future always looks bleak.

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Profits may be there, but everyone seems to agree the future just looks too bleak.

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The municipal pool remained closed over the summer and the fate of future town fiestas looks bleak.

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The future looks even more bleak.

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An English entrepreneur, living on the Portuguese island of Madeira, said "the future looks very, very bleak and panic is in the air".

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Without a sustained upturn in the gold price, the future for South Africa's gold miners looks bleak.

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The future of the Alliance, never a particularly homogeneous grouping, now looks bleak.

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