1.   Analysts generally are not quite as optimistic as Duffield.

2.   Analysts are not as optimistic about Polaroid.

3.   And not everyone is as optimistic as the SIA executives in Florida.

4.   And they sounded as optimistic as the new economy dreamers.

5.   Anderson is just as optimistic about the changes he sees in his offensive line, now under the direction of line coach Pete Mangurian.

6.   Arum, who had no stake in Lewis-Tyson, was as optimistic as the always-ebullient Taffet.

7.   As optimistic as Knoblauch has been, history should make the Yankees wary.

8.   But comet groupies are as optimistic as serial blind-daters, no matter how often their expectations crash and burn.

9.   But Davis is not as optimistic as his Pierce County counterpart regarding a connection to Yates.

10.   But Colangelo says he is as optimistic as ever about baseball in the long term.