Optimists point to signs of a backlash in Congress and among some parts of American industry.
Right up through September, we optimists failed to see the ditch ahead in the road.
The die-hard optimists also think Bonn will keep Japanese support for the treaty intact.
"Optimists assumed that recession-plagued nations had substantially completed financial and corporate restructuring, " explains Rountree.
Even optimists recognize that RIM is dueling with strong foes in the uber-competitive smartphone market.
Another group of optimists, however, places much more emphasis on the business cycle and good fortune.
As eternal English optimists, and lovers of the world game, we keep our fingers crossed.
During the Great Moderation, right-wingers were generally economic optimists and left-wingers tended to be economic pessimists.
The gap between optimists and pessimists over Russia, always big, is thus widening again.
The optimists argue that they have both history and public opinion on their side.
This may, for instance, explain why optimists work longer hours and tend to earn more.
In the first week, of course, almost none of the optimists' forecasts came true.
Still, say the optimists, India does not have long to wait for an election.
The optimists point to a buoyant property market and the region's cluster of high-tech investments.
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If this survey had to take sides in the argument, it would support the optimists.
Optimists dispute this gloomy assessment, pointing out that some measures of housing affordability have dramatically improved.
Optimists say that it will, because sheriffs can do so many things to release inmates safely.
Risk had not been reduced by as much as the optimists hoped, let alone eliminated.
In short, the optimists have a point, but the danger is in pushing it too far.
The optimists point out that it takes only a few moderate legislators to make super-majorities possible.
Even optimists do not dare to hope that such measures will rid Thai politics of corruption.
The self-drive car-rental business is in its infancy, although optimists believe this will change.
Optimists like to argue that, in the long run, black empowerment will create three strengths.
As these alternatives start to roll out in earnest, their rise, optimists hope, will become inexorable.
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Optimists predict that the elections on April 14th will show a trend away from race-based voting.
Optimists say this is no more than the vigorous debate that defines the American primary system.
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Optimists and pessimists have been battling it out since the Carter malaise era of the late 1970s.
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But even the optimists are not expecting the crisis economies to actually grow for many months yet.
Optimists like to think that a wave of post-partum euphoria will, for example, help boost consumer spending.
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Optimists in Bangladesh feel the Rana Plaza tragedy could be the straw that will break the camel's back.
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