1.   As a result, he got good information, not just happy talk.

2.   An abrupt rate cut after so much happy talk about recovery would be viewed as an announcement that Greenspan and his colleagues had lost faith in the recovery.

3.   Being exhibitions, all-star games invite more happy talk than incisive analysis.

4.   -- Does the happy talk in the elevators drive you to distraction?

5.   Even the happy talk is scripted, making Molinari and Mitchell sometimes seem like an awkward couple on a first date.

6.   For all the happy talk, commissioner Bud Selig has some appeasing to do before his radical realignment plan comes up for consideration next month.

7.   Frankly, the more happy talk I hear about death, the more I worry.

8.   Gordon has given the Red Sox a dose of happy talk at a time of year when most conversation about the club is talk-radio shrill.

9.   Happy talk aside, the recent election produced nothing to suggest we can caper away voting rights vigilance without imperiling political and social justice.

10.   Happy talk with sponsors to conduct.