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With positions hardening on both sides before the bargaining even begins, only a true optimist (like a long-suffering Cubs or Indians fan) would plan on attending many games during the imperiled 1994 season. But what lies ahead for 1995 is even more ominous for baseball traditionalists: the owners seem determined to cheapen postseason play by doubling the number of play-off teams...
Ronald Reagan wasn't our most successful presidential candidate in history because he was the Great Communicator. He won two landslide victories because he was the Great Optimist. But whenever Republican rhetoric or behavior contradicts the cultural expectation of optimism and success, as it did in 1992, we fail...
Scientists contacted yesterday were generally optimist about the apparent success of the nitric oxide approach...
Leroy built the stairs. But even this dogged optimist, who says he is "only a dumb swamp Yankee," can see that his wife's "eyes are full of disappointment." Yes, in him -- a reproach tempered by Patricia's realization that he has stayed, through 20 years of her illness, because he remembers her as she was and could be again. Now he wants her to live for something more than gratitude: "You just have to love this world...
...Clinton dug in, his aides folded their tents. "We didn't talk about the other softness," says one of the Blair House briefers. "We weren't getting anywhere, and Clinton was beginning to turn the bad news around." In fact, as an incurable optimist, Clinton actually became exhilarated. He acknowledged that his aides' report made their collective challenge more difficult, but, says a Blair House participant, "he clearly relished the chance to use the news to help teach people to appreciate the severe structural problems of the economy, the need to sacrifice even if the short-term situation improves...