Only a year or two ago, the nation's research community was in despair over a potentially bleak future.

Now the hard working couple say they face a miserable Christmas and a bleak future.

Kids with a bleak future would be exposed to new ideas and opportunities.

She would make him a good wife,' he added wistfully, looking into his own bleak future.

But she sketched out a bleak future for her only daughter.

Without renewed American military aid, they face a bleak future.

"There are some 20 million people exposed in the past who face a fairly bleak future over the next 30 to 40 years," he said.

"The town faced a bleak future, if any at all," he says.

Despite what some farmers say about the bleak future of their work in general, land remains a central commodity.

"But the larger number will face a very bleak future."