11.   --Excessively optimistic projections about how many phone lines actually would be able to support DSL.

12.   He said he wants to use more optimistic projections of growth, inflation and interest rates calculated by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

13.   Knighton said Chiron bought the plant based on what would have proved to be overly optimistic projections of Betaseron sales.

14.   More optimistic projections see China overtaking Japan as the dominant Asian economic power in the first part of the next century.

15.   Naturally, every optimistic projection should be tempered by reality.

16.   Once he finds a suitable investment, he sticks with it unless its price rises above his most optimistic projections.

17.   Or for some other reason sales fall short of optimistic projections?

18.   Optimistic OMB projections of the early Reagan years allowed the Republican administration to cut taxes while projecting declining deficits.

19.   Q. What degree of change in motor vehicle fuel economy standards would save as much oil as the most optimistic projection of ANWR production?

20.   Some analysts, by the way, calculate that the spending programs Gore has promised voters exceed even the most optimistic surplus projections.