Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their lawyer, however, is more upbeat. "I lost Round No. 1 on economics," says Notre Dame law professor G. Robert Blakey, who argued before the court. "But I'll win Round No. 2 on innocence." In order to make her newly revived case, Clayton must prove that the pro-lifers engaged twice or more in crimes covered by RICO, and that they did so in connection with the defendants. She claims abundant evidence to this effect. For his part, Blakey brandishes a letter from the explosives chief at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms stating that "there...
...unemployment report is not the only reason for thinking so. It is, in fact, so upbeat as to seem almost suspicious. The jobless rate plunged from 6.8% in October to 6.4% in November. That was the lowest in almost three years, since January 1991, and the drop was the greatest for any single month since October 1983. The November rate, in fact, was about what some forecasters had been predicting for the end of next year. There is always a chance that any startling one-month fluctuation will turn out to be a fluke, or at least subject to later...
...doesn't the Administration do more bragging? One reason is that Clinton does not want to sound insensitive to the troubles of those still suffering from the hangover of hard times. Thus, in a speech to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council Friday, the President proudly listed almost every upbeat statistic, but also took care to remark, "We have a long way to go. We are still dealing with stagnant incomes, we are still dealing with the fact that more and more people who lose their jobs lose them permanently and have to find new and different jobs...
Despite the loss, Dooley is upbeat about the prospects for his squad...
...glories of pan-Pacific free trade. Amity and optimism were watchwords as the U.S. President greeted leaders from 14 other APEC members, sat through bilateral meetings and swept the whole group off for a casual get- together on nearby Blake Island. There the leaders issued a vague but upbeat joint statement on their shared "economic vision" for the Asia- Pacific area. Said Clinton at a Saturday press conference: "We've agreed that the Asia-Pacific region should be a united one, not divided...