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LOVINGKINDNESS Cultivates a positive mood or beneficent outlook through the contemplation of such feelings as compassion for all people...
...expects his teaching experience to inform his outlook as a student—though to what extent he is unsure, he says...
...Michigan looked at stock markets in 26 countries over 16 years and found that performance goes up as cloud cover goes down, bolstering a claim first made a decade ago. The reason is what you might think: sunny weather leads to a sunny disposition and a more optimistic outlook on prospects. There's no money in sunny, though. Transaction costs will probably erase any benefit gained trading on nice days. The real lesson: "Somebody out there is trading on emotion," says Shumway. "That shouldn't be you." --By Barbara Kiviat
...Paris as an envoy during the Revolution, Franklin proved himself a master of the diplomatic doctrine of realism by playing an adroit balance-of-power game between France, Spain, the Netherlands and later Britain. In a memo he wrote to the wily French Foreign Minister Vergennes, whose realist outlook was summarized by his maxim that "the influence of every power is measured by the opinion one has of its intrinsic force," Franklin emphasized the cold calculation of national interests that he knew the minister would appreciate. If France and her ally Spain joined the American cause, Britain would lose...
...outlook on the future of race-conscious admissions policies in the wake of the Court’s rulings was optimistic...