Those around George Osborne have for months been - perhaps a tad optimistically - arguing that once the economic figures turn around, then the political figures will shift too.
The finalists of Euro 96 are now expected, perhaps a little over-optimistically, to go one better.
The combination of inflation--a debilitating disease that undermines people's sense of order and mocks sound values, such as hard work and looking optimistically toward the future--an intensely divisive war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandals had created a destructive, venomous environment when Ford took the oath of office.
They're making plans now for -- even as they drill these two relief wells that optimistically will take quite some time -- how do we plug this leak either through using the robotics to effect the valve -- how are we dispersing this so that that oil never gets to the top and then through a natural system gets -- largely dissipates at the bottom?
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First, higher personal-saving rates and (more optimistically) a lower federal deficit will hold down long-term interest rates and the cost of capital.
Compared to similar readings taken during the past year, this ratio ranks in the 30th percentile implying that short-term speculators are more optimistically aligned than usual toward the stock.
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In other words short-term options players have been more optimistically aligned toward the shares only 4.4% of the time during the past year.
This reading is also lower than 79% of all those taken during the past year, indicating that short-term options players have been more optimistically aligned toward the shares only 21% of the time.
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The Undersecretary of State for Interamerican Affairs, Dr. Thomas Shannon, once again expressed a positive attitude towards President Hugo Chavez by talking about the possibility of strengthening relations between Venezuela and the US. Shannon optimistically offered Chavez cooperation between the two countries on drug-traffic control.
Two million to three million of the five million volumes in the stacks including the more specialized material many of us depend on, and referred to by the library as the "least used" books would be moved to Siberia. (Excuse me, to New Jersey, where the offsite storage is located.) Books would be returned in an optimistically estimated but unreliable 24 hours, by truck, on the traffic-jammed New Jersey Turnpike.
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Lehman, for example, optimistically acquired the specialist operations of Van der Moolen (nyse: VDM - news - people ) this month.
First, there are Medicare cuts (or optimistically, Medicare efficiencies), which will have no direct impact whatsoever on employers or working-age patients.
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