Some analysts were over optimistic in their estimates of iPad sales at 20 million.
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Industry analysts believe stores may have been overly optimistic in ordering Blu-ray players for the holiday season.
As for Mr Brown, he may well be feeling optimistic in the aftermath of Labour's landslide victory.
Orwall responded that retailers have come out of Black Friday optimistic in years past only to fizzle out.
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When you meet with an investor you have to learn to be optimistic in a uniquely realistic kind of way.
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The Treasury has been too optimistic in most of its fiscal forecasts since 2001, and this one seems no exception.
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Anglo American was too optimistic in believing that it could turn around decades of mismanagement and looting in one year.
Do you think their numbers are -- I know you cited other numbers that are more optimistic in terms of growth.
As for whether or not we can completely eradicate terrorism I'm not very optimistic in thinking that perhaps we can completely eradicate it.
Former US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has urged Republicans to stay optimistic in his first major speech since losing the election last year.
Though the Dryosaurus is in good shape, with 80% of its skeleton intact, Miles says he's afraid Chait's estimate is overly optimistic in this climate.
Pay-TV firms are oddly optimistic in the face of repeated defeat.
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Change is the only guarantee for media in the Digital Age, and my colleagues and I are among the most optimistic in the industry about change.
"Stephen is optimistic in his ongoing battle with cancer and is doing as well as can be expected while undergoing some pretty difficult treatments, " Coyte wrote.
But a net 22% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who are manufacturers said they were more optimistic in the three months to April, the CBI said.
Delegates are often optimistic in public and pessimistic in private.
According to staffing firm Hudson, IT workers were also less optimistic in August about their personal finances, with just 47% rating them as excellent or good, down from 62%.
Published just a few months ago, the report concluded that the program funding and schedule estimates were overly optimistic in light of the complexity of the challenges facing the program.
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Today, there seems to be ample reason for pessimism and little about which to be confident and optimistic in social welfare, economic and financial, fiscal and financial sector trends in Japan.
The (optimistic in my view) master plan figures for 2018 would lead (based on 189 seat jets operating at 80% capacity, with a 16 hour opening) to a plane landing every 48 minutes.
Vivian was to be polite and helpful, in terms of offering water or coffee or directing them to the rest rooms in the hallway, but not overly solicitous and definitely not optimistic in any way.
"Business mood which was unduly optimistic in 2007, is unduly pessimistic today, " the prime minister said in his address to an annual gathering of India's industry leaders, hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), on Wednesday.
Doing business in China relies on more than an optimistic message in a fortune cookie.
Though it depicts the severe separation of men and women in Saudi Arabia, it's a subtle, largely optimistic film in which the girl, Wadjda, strives to simply own a bicycle.
The trick is his uncanny ability to sound an optimistic note in a sea of melancholy.
The IPCC was an overly optimistic experiment in international governance designed for a world that never materialized.
"But there is sympathy and I feel optimistic that in the long term we will see change".
"There are a number of optimistic moves in this announcement, " he said.
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