Word: optimistically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bates addition proved particularly important. An enthusiastic coach characterized by one player earlier in the season as an "irrepressible optimist," Bates gave the team a sense of direction other than down, and she kept the team fighting through two multi-game losing streaks at points in the season...
...least 5% of the vote is entitled to a seat in the new Cabinet. In any case, as one of his confidence-building measures, Mandela intends to keep present Minister of Finance Derek Keys and Central Bank director Chris Stals in his government of national unity. Keys is an optimist about the transition. "From an economic point of view," he says, "I think it is going to work very well." Even so, Keys is worried that the A.N.C. development plan was put together as a wish list without figuring carefully what each government department can actually spend...
Everyone is an optimist on opening day. There must be a saying that the grass is always greenest on opening day. The 35-year old free agent pick-up will hit 35 homers and really will be worth his three million-dollar price tag. All injuries will mend in three to six weeks. The Red Sox really will steal bases...
...rushing around Sarajevo like little kids, sincerely convinced that they were participating in some great and fateful event. We can't really get angry at all these folks who take their work so seriously. Personally, I'm not even upset about the reporter, who had declared me a happy optimist. All we ask is that these reporters listen a little less to what the "historical figures" at "historical gatherings" have to say and rely a little more on their own eyes and their own intelligence...
Call me a naive optimist, but I don't think things are that bad. And my memory is probably much shorter than Rudenstine...