1.   However, the author is not optimistic on that approach.

2.   Also optimistic on the inflation outlook is the U.S. Treasury, which today unveiled plans to start selling bonds that would pay interest at a rate tied to inflation.

3.   Analysts were optimistic on Tuesday that SmithKline could end its ponderous ways.

4.   Analysts were not optimistic on the outlook for the dollar in coming days.

5.   And yet the most optimistic on both sides hope the specter of this latest showdown will force a solution.

6.   Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, was similarly optimistic on Thursday.

7.   But some analysts said that investors were being unduly optimistic on the issue of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.

8.   Fund managers are turning more optimistic on Eastern Europe because several countries already passed through some of the roughest patches in their transformation to market economies.

9.   In Budapest, foreign investors remain optimistic on Hungarian stocks, which still are seen as undervalued with room to rise, analysts said.

10.   In spite of the odds against Russian baseball and his son, Leonid Korneyev is optimistic on both fronts.