1.   And perhaps unsurprisingly, substantial investors were more optimistic about their ability to maintain their standard or living and meet financial goals.

2.   Generation X, best known for its pierced bodies and jaded outlook, is more optimistic about Wall Street than previous generations.

3.   If he had been admitted sooner, I should have been more optimistic.

4.   It made government supporters more optimistic about the economy and opposition supporters more pessimistic.

5.   School-to-work can engage young people in career planning and make them more optimistic about the future.

6.   State officials are much more optimistic about the prospects for successfully tracking recipients.

7.   Students in these schools also were more optimistic about their chances of succeeding after high school.

8.   The Decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note.

9.   The rising generation of students were more optimistic about the future and did not carry the emotional burdens of the Cultural Revolution.