The latest Perot performances are plainly meant to soften the impact of his first two commercials, which were all stark graphs and gloomy statistics.

Now the stores in the Ginza neighborhood are deathly quiet, visible proof of Japan's gloomy economic statistics.

Despite the gloomy statistics, visitors can roam the streets of Manhattan without noticing signs of economic distress.

Their proposals for shortening the odds are overwhelmed by their own gloomy statistics and anecdotes.

Spock read out the gloomy statistics from the science station as they flashed up on the screen above his console.

But the gloomy economic statistics certainly provided the appropriate backdrop.

Such comments came against a backdrop of gloomy statistics, with reservoirs at or near record low levels.

It is one thing to herald a presumed crisis, though, and to cite a ream of gloomy statistics.

These gloomy statistics show us clearly that we must do everything we can to combat smoking.

Despite these gloomy statistics, however, high blood pressure is not inevitable.