Word: upbeatness
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...surface, things weren't quite right, as Gay battled the demons of doubt. A day after his disappointing 100m sprint (he failed to qualify for the finals), Gay sat down with TIME's Sean Gregory near the Bird's Nest. At some points visibly despondent, at other moments upbeat, Gay revealed the stumbling blocks on his rough road to Beijing...
...come.'' Indeed, despite all the litigation, the number of reported abortions in the U.S. has stayed fairly steady since the late 1970s, at about 1.5 million a year. Legal experts cautioned against assuming too much from Burger's apparent defection. Harvard Law School's Laurence Tribe called the upbeat statements from pro-lifers a ''kind of premature crowing that is not warranted,'' adding that ''anyone who is thoughtful recognizes that the court is not 5 to 4 on the basic issue of Roe vs. Wade. There is no evidence that (Dissenting Justice Sandra Day) O'Connor or the Chief Justice...
...surrounding that predicament, seem all too symptomatic of the troubles and uncertainties that are engulfing much of U.S. manufacturing these days. The hard fact is that the nation is coping with one of the most wrenching economic transitions since the turn of the century. Despite the Reagan Administration's upbeat talk of continuing economic growth and prosperity, workers in traditional American industries insist on singing the shutdown blues, sometimes in whole choirs. Four years after the official end of the last U.S. recession, American factories ranging from textile plants in North Carolina to machine-tool plants in Ohio are still...
...Others, both privately and publicly, were not so upbeat. "The inspection regime was always going to be the toughest nut to crack, and now we just have to have at it," says one former diplomat with long experience dealing with the North. "If they get this done within 45 days, I'll be amazed." South Korea's current envoy to the talks, Kim Sook, agreed. "I am not optimistic about what's ahead. Implementing the verification guidelines will be a very difficult...
...months before the company's 100th anniversary, General Motors Corp. executives remain defiantly upbeat in the face of a weak economy, terrible sales and Wall Street speculation that the giant automaker could ultimately wind up in bankruptcy court if the slump continues...