Word: rosiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Industry analysts report that the DVD format suddenly took off this past holiday season, surpassing even their rosiest projections. A decade from now, they say, more people are expected to be using DVD than videotape...
...successful this week it could touch off a nice rally," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. Earnings reports, by definition, are the past. But the $517 billion recapitalization of the Japanese banks, giving them the cash to start lending again to their Asian neighbors -- that's about the rosiest future economists will allow themselves to imagine right...
...National Association of Colleges and Employers reports that the class of '98 has the rosiest economic prospects in a decade; but even graduating seniors at the most prestigious universities are risk averse, very conservative in their career choices, as though the ground could shift at any minute. "There used to be much more willingness to take chances in choosing what to major in or what profession to pursue," says Yale historian Stephen Lassonde. "Now everyone wants to go straight into a consulting job the day after graduation. That way they know they'll have a job and can start paying...
They dominated the ground floor, these fat companies that have made fortunes in the information industry. And everywhere you heard the same story: thanks to "E-commerce"--selling goods and services on the Web--their business is exceeding the rosiest expectations...
Still, it was obvious to even the rosiest fantasts that we couldn't win this war by simple force of arms, that the real battle was for the trust and loyalty of the common man. We knew this, but our anger and fear kept getting the better of us. Why didn't they get behind us? Why didn't they care that we were dying for them? Yet every time we slapped someone around, or trashed a village, or shouted curses from a jeep, we defined ourselves as the enemy and thereby handed more power and legitimacy to the people...