Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last month, before the strikes and demonstrations that have created a crisis in France began, an upbeat Jacques Chirac met with TIME Europe editor Christopher Redman and Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton to discuss his views of France, Europe and the world. It was the first interview Chirac has granted to any foreign publication since his election as President in May. Excerpts from their conversation...
With this weekend's Harvard Invitational looming on the schedule, Murray is upbeat about the team's prospects in his first season...
...household carries $3,900 in credit-card debt alone. "Consumers are tapped out," says Peter Caruso, who follows retailing for Merrill Lynch. "There is no spending power left." Indeed, the government reported last week that retail sales dipped 0.2% in October compared with the previous month. Even the normally upbeat National Retail Federation expects holiday sales to increase no more than 5% this year, down from at least 7% growth in each of the past three years...
...change the demographic profile of the network too much, too fast." CBS's traditionally older audience simply did not go for hip young shows like the much hyped Central Park West. "It should have been aimed a little more middle-of-the-road," says Moonves. Yet he is predictably upbeat about the chances for a CBS turnaround: "There's a change in attitude and morale. Everybody is feeling like this is a rebuilding year, but we can do something here...
...Angola might seem like an unlikely place to go looking for a good time. The fieldwork used to be so brutal that in 1951, 31 prisoners cut their Achilles tendons in protest. But today, thanks to a federal lawsuit and changes in prison leadership, the mood is about as upbeat as it can be in a facility that boasts watchtowers, razor-wire fences and a lethal-injection chamber...