There is a lot of reason to be optimistic -- some of the data points I just ticked off for you.
All of these are grounds to be optimistic about the future of the universities.
When asked if he had been pressured to be optimistic, one of the authors said the reverse was true.
As for Mr Brown, he may well be feeling optimistic in the aftermath of Labour's landslide victory.
There is a host of reasons to be optimistic about the country's investment prospects.
When you meet with an investor you have to learn to be optimistic in a uniquely realistic kind of way.
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On the current state of the global economy and financial system, Mr Blankfein said there were "a lot of things to be optimistic about".
Whisper it softly, but there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about how the world's big companies will conduct themselves in the future.
Yet there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic.
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Mr de Guindos is seen to be too optimistic both about the ability of banks to raise capital without the help of taxpayers and how much capital the banks will end up needing.
We as people and lovers of the kingdom of Cambodia should be optimistic and have faith in the new king, it does not matter if his passions are dancing or the fact that he lived abroad, all that matters is that now he knows his duties and he is promising prosperity and hope for the kingdom of Cambodia.
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Mr. MICHAEL O'HANLON (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution): Certainly some of them were guilty of an overly arrogant and optimistic view of how the United States would be welcomed wherever it went around the world.
For those who are, in varying degrees, more optimistic, 2012 will be a year of balancing acts.
But investors tend to be carried away by over-optimistic projections of China's markets, and pay over the top to enter them.
But there are many reasons to be optimistic going into October and the 4th quarter of 2011.
Even the most optimistic bull can be vulnerable to a loss of confidence.
While the overall performance for 2011 was miserable, there are reasons to be optimistic, says Lee Hennessee, managing principal of Hennessee Group.
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This would seem to be an optimistic goal, given the lukewarm sales of standard hybrids, even with gasoline at its current inflated per-gallon prices.
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Bernstein Research estimates that these unsold houses will take four to five years to clear, and even that may be too optimistic given high unemployment, the threat of a sovereign-debt crisis and fewer immigrants.
If the dating scene has been good to him, with a continuous stream of parties, girls and fun, then he will be optimistic about what the next 6 or 12 months have in store for him based on the warm and fuzzy feeling of his past success.
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He thinks the Department of Health's prediction is optimistic and the number of people to give up is likely to be between 80, 000 and 200, 000.
Will his firm's optimistic view of its prospects prove to be far-sighted, or rose-tinted?
The CEO with a sales pedigree may be overly optimistic, which leads to its own set of issues.
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Paulson suggests just five more months of pain, which may be too optimistic.
Markets across the board rallied on Friday initially, optimistic that some sort of deal can be reached with Greece so the country can get its second bailout.
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Mr Andrews said negotiations were underway with Brussels and "whilst there is a long way to go" he was "optimistic that we will be able to develop one of the first urban development funds in Europe".
This mixed opinion makes it difficult to make any prediction for the future, but what is clear is that companies with a positive or optimistic view of the US economy will be more likely to want to drive innovation and change.
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Dr. HAYES: Well, I think there's also data that, in fact, those people have a right to be more optimistic, because we know that higher levels of education - actually, they have better outcomes with diagnoses of cancer or a diagnoses of heart disease.
In particular, most analysts consider Mr Ghosn's forecasts of demand for electric cars to be wildly optimistic.
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