The long-term outlook for the 3M Company ( MMM) is a bit less positive.
Two of the best-known overbought stocks on the list look less positive based on their weekly technical readings.
One Scottish visitor to London said the Olympics were a welcome distraction from less positive national and international news.
The bank union chief is less positive on Europe following the recent crisis that has engulfed the eurozone's third-smallest economy, Cyprus.
Mr Saunders also said upcoming trading statements from some big retailers would be less positive than those from the department stores.
Despite "achieving" what no American has before, the outpouring of support for the unemployed mother of 14 was less positive than expected.
Dr Kastner says it is legitimate to seek media attention, but she said that can mean having to "live with other less positive consequences".
Sentiment for businesses dropped this week, as separate reports from the U.S. and Germany showed that consumers and businesses are less positive about the future.
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Critics have been less positive, with some Labour Party lawmakers concerned that security will be inadequate or that the prominent military presence will make visitors uncomfortable.
Critics have been less positive, with some Labour Party lawmakers concerned that security will be inadequate or that visitors will be made uncomfortable by a prominent military presence.
But the results of the trials of that drug, known as VX-809, were less positive, showing improvements in lung function, but not in how much chloride is in sweat.
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Results showed that women exposed to cues related to romantic goals reported less positive attitudes toward STEM and less of a preference for majoring in math or science fields compared to other disciplines.
The other two schools of thought take a much less positive view, seeing the developing countries as playing a central part in forcing up commodity prices with adverse effects across much of the rich world.
OK, some less positive ones then.
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Employment, however, was less positive. (See: "Uncle Sam's Jobless Line Longer") The Labor Department said initial claims for unemployment insurance rose by 35, 000 in its latest reporting week and the number of workers remaining on jobless benefits climbed to a four-year high.
Historically, when that spending has gone towards projects with long productive lives (like roads, bridges or schools), it has worked out, but when the money is used for transfer payments, unneeded infrastructure (as in the case of Japan), or non-productive activities like war, the outcomes are less positive.
Housing starts in Canada did come in about 4K less than expected at 189K. While on the surface this may seem like less than positive news, the fact that the previous report was revised upward by 6K easily offset any ill effects of the expectations miss.
Thinking back to the days before Sept. 11, 2001, I remember we were still in a recession that began in March and many at a trade show I was attending were less than positive about the prospects for their companies and the retailing business as a whole.
And while would-be SUV buyers may not be deterred by Earth-loving ad saboteurs, anything less than a positive message is unlikely to sell trucks.
In fact, the less I see my own body as a positive asset, the less I have wanted to interfere with what other women choose to do with theirs.
But in many other countries, we are on budget and will become cash flow positive in less than two years.
This comes on top of less-than-positive results concerning a late-stage study of Erbitux, ImClone's multi-billion colorectal drug, combined with chemotherapy.
An examination of 308 studies from the criminal-justice literature, by David Weisburd of the University of Maryland and his colleagues, found that randomised trials were significantly less likely to report positive outcomes than non-randomised studies.
The stakes are too high to continue to hypothesis that if only teachers taught better and if only schools were more positive and less punitive, then education would be great or no student would be left behind.
That's still not the situation in the U.S.--even during the last quarter, GDP growth was positive, albeit less than 1%.
The important thing is, keep someone working on it, and don't settle for anything less than the best imaginable positive results.
The children of economically stressed parents were also less likely to engage in positive social behaviors like helping others and volunteering.
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