11.   Essentially this was based on optimistic views about social progress and economic growth.

12.   Despite the depressing statistics Rover chiefs are publicly at least taking an optimistic view.

13.   Two strongly contrasted works by composers who did, however, share an optimistic view of religion not acceptable to their more conventional contemporaries.

14.   Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected, who takes a less optimistic view.

15.   Although this optimistic view seemed to win at least mild endorsement from the bond market, where interest rates eased somewhat, many analysts disagreed or remained neutral.

16.   And after the figures were announced Thursday, Deputy Finance Minister Takeshi Komura gave an optimistic view of the economy.

17.   And at a fund-raiser in Cincinnati, Clinton provided the most optimistic view of of his marriage since he admitted his affair with Monica Lewinsky exactly one month earlier.

18.   And Cohen and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Henry Shelton of the Army, offered a more optimistic view of the damage done.

19.   And the optimistic view -- the one that most Austria analysts share -- assumes that interest rates and bond yields in those countries will not rise dramatically.

20.   At least that is the optimistic Democratic view.