11.   But blacks here also are more optimistic than blacks nationwide about opportunities for quality education and housing, equal pay for the same work and fair treatment by police.

12.   Carroll sounded far less optimistic than Pollard that he would be ready.

13.   Few forecasters are more optimistic than Glassman, but even he is reconciled to subpar growth for the rest of this year.

14.   Foreign economists and executives are much less optimistic than their American counterparts about what is ahead for the U.S. economy.

15.   Generally, Ms. Salz said, survey responses from advertisers were more optimistic than those from their agencies.

16.   Goren insisted that he remained more optimistic than his wife.

17.   Gershwin tunes celebrated a wide-eyed romantic love, far more optimistic than the bittersweet songs of Cole Porter or Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

18.   He relied on economic assumptions from his own Office of Management and Budget that were more optimistic than those the Republicans obtained from the Congressional Budget Office.

19.   He said, however, that his view was much more optimistic than that of others in the government.

20.   He is more optimistic than almost every forecaster.