21.   Bond investors said the survey painted an overly optimistic view of an economy most say is recovering only slowly at best.

22.   Both have become indelible reminders that technology is not always beneficent, but neither caused a retreat from the fundamentally optimistic American view.

23.   A more optimistic view was expressed by Dr. David Kelsen, chief of gastrointestinal oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

24.   Clinton administration officials, who are cautiously trying to assert US leadership on the international environment, take a more optimistic view.

25.   Earlier today, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Gary Stern offered his own optimistic view of the economy.

26.   He obliged, with the optimistic view that he will recoup the losses in years to come.

27.   He repeated his optimistic view that the growth rate of productivity is still accelerating as technological advances work their way through the economy.

28.   I definitely gravitate towards an optimistic view on racing.

29.   I picture Kobe people as jazz lovers who order sushi without a menu and take an optimistic view of the future.

30.   I take the optimistic view that Americans can survive almost anything if we get in touch with the soil and use common sense about other things. . . .