If you like a president, you are inclined to take the rosy view of the economy during his administration.

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But perhaps his long years outside France gave Mr de Villepin a rather too rosy view of his compatriots?

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Does the data really support such a rosy view of value?

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Here, the cartel seems to be taking an overly rosy view.

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One common explanation - favoured by the coalition - is that Labour took a much too rosy view of the underlying state of the public finances in the years leading up to the crunch.

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According to Martin Neil Baily, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, the "striking thing" about last year's report was that it painted a rosy view of the trade imbalance by focusing on the capital account surplus, rather than its inverse, the current account deficit.

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The faulty system (which the company says has now been fixed) persuaded Oxford to take too rosy a view of its financial position, overestimating its revenues and membership and underestimating how much it owed to doctors and hospitals.

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