Too many stories in "Despair," though equally promising, are curtailed or diffident just when they should be paying off.

They looked equally promising to him- which was to say not very.

This year's "Nozze" has some equally promising candidates.

His show is rich in options, if not equally promising ones.

"There's no reason to believe that CIMS science won't be equally promising," he said.

Other applications being developed seem equally promising.

Martinique says that its record number of 217,000 cruise-ship visitors in 1986 has already been passed this year and that 1988 looks equally promising.

What helped, he said, was watching his wife, who quit an equally promising political career to work in television, an ill-fated job she has since left.

As we conclude this stage, an equally promising stage is beginning that requires our full commitment.

In outline the rest of the story seems equally promising.