31.   Rose appeared optimistic after meeting Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic.

32.   Rose appeared optimistic after meeting Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic in their stronghold of Pale on Friday.

33.   Stroyev, the leader of the upper house, sounded optimistic after the hour-long meeting.

34.   The European Union peace envoy, Miguel Moratinos, was nevertheless optimistic after meeting Arafat.

35.   They were optimistic after the earlier meetings.

36.   U.S. officials, who until recently had barred Chavez from entering the United States because of his attempted coup, were cautiously optimistic after his inauguration.

37.   Growers in France are quite optimistic after a mild winter and a hot and dry summer.

38.   Dealers said the prospects for the metals now looked less optimistic after interest rate rises in Britain and the United States and as production looked set rise.

39.   Kuerten was cautiously optimistic after seeing off Kiefer in their first meeting in four years.