Most recessions are accompanied by a resilient optimism buoyed by a belief in the innovative power of science and technology.
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While there is a cautious optimism, there is a real sense that too little has been done two years later.
He brought with him a Midwestern optimism, and he blended it with a western "can do" spirit.
Now news of the off-shore oil find has provided a bubble of optimism and a hope that some lengthy wish lists will be addressed.
But we have a deep optimism about software and the willingness to fund things that would take more than a decade to see fruition.
Important markets tops come with a handful of key ingredients, including high valuations, a lot of optimism, and a treasury yield curve that is flat or even inverted.
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The themes that emerged from the survey paint a picture of optimism and growth with a measured approach.
It is a cautious optimism, however, with bearish sentiment staying above its historical average for sixth consecutive week.
So I'm afraid, as I head off for my holidays, I'm going to indulge in a little optimism.
There is under all the cynicism, a basic optimism to the American people.
But all around him, the music is bursting with sunshine and big thrumming refrain that exude a contagious optimism.
Both Romney and Ryan displayed a Reaganesque optimism about America getting back on track and moving confidently forward.
Though there has been an above average level of bullish sentiment for four consecutive weeks, it remains a cautious optimism.
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These phrases serve as buzzwords, used to placate suffering fan bases and bring a smidgen of hollow optimism to a hopeless situation.
And it offers a shred of economic optimism at a time when banking on Washington may not lead to bountiful returns.
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And, although a hardened skeptic, he is fueled by a genuine optimism.
This ratio of calls to puts is higher than 70% of all those taken during the past year, pointing to a growing optimism.
Gold, though, is a vote against economic optimism, a hunker-down commodity that ideologically belongs beside guns, canned tuna and bottles of water in the basement.
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Meanwhile, at a tech conference in Florida, there was reason for a little optimism from the second-largest computer company, Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ).
While a rosy optimism has fuelled the party in Wall Street (at least until this week), William McChesney Martin would have bolted for the door long ago, punchbowl firmly tucked under his arm.
When Motorola launched its Webtop concept alongside the original Atrix 4G, it had grand visions of replacing our PCs with a smartphone, a Lapdock and some optimism for a mobile-focused future.
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"I carry with me a message of optimism about the possibilities of a peace treaty, " Bush said with the two Israeli leaders.
So by the time the rally has lasted for some time and the market has become overbought and due for a correction investor optimism and bullishness will have reached a high level.
Seeing so many Egyptians exercise their newly won freedom is a cause for optimism, and it will provide a foundation for further progress as the Egyptians continue to build a democratic future.
Indeed compared to the doom and gloom usually presented in opinion polls, Russians can exhibit a quite surprising degree of optimism on a few important questions.
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In the past few weeks there has been a note of optimism in this particular story, as a cushion-star has been found to be brooding young.
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For the stock market, with its steady rise since the start of 2012 and in January 2013, it should pick up more steam this year, powered by a buildup of basic optimism as opposed to a fear-based market attitude.
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