51.   The talks began Monday on an optimistic note, with the American negotiator saying the United States was prepared to move toward fundamentally improved relations with North Korea.

52.   This time, he sounded a more optimistic note.

53.   Welch also sounded an optimistic note.

54.   Wisner struck an optimistic note, however, saying things have never looked so good for a settlement to the Kashmir dispute.

55.   Grachev, speaking after an official welcoming ceremony at the Pentagon, sounded an optimistic note as talks got under way.

56.   A similarly optimistic note was struck by his US counterpart William Perry.

57.   As he often does in his public testimony, Greenspan ended his prepared remarks on an optimistic note.

58.   But he did sound one optimistic note.

59.   But he ends here on an optimistic note.

60.   The only optimistic note was an experiment showing that it might be possible to draw off the deadly gas.