1.   And John Ehrhardt, a principal at Milliman, says that auditors in the post-Enron era may force companies to reduce their optimistic assumptions.

2.   Another possible risk of state tax cuts is that many are based on optimistic economic assumptions.

3.   At the same time, managers adopted more optimistic assumptions about future investment gains.

4.   But other leading experts who study the disease say that these numbers are based on overly optimistic assumptions.

5.   But other leading experts who study the disease say these numbers are based on overly optimistic assumptions.

6.   But to attract those investors, the company promised to undertake a rapid expansion built on optimistic assumptions.

7.   By then, the bosses making the current optimistic assumptions will have collected bonuses based on those assumptions and retired.

8.   Clinton said Thursday that he would agree to a nine-year path to a balanced budget but only using his own more optimistic economic assumptions.

9.   Democrats pounced on the discrepancy between the two forecasts, arguing that the Whitman administration was making overly optimistic assumptions for the future.

10.   Even by the most optimistic technological assumptions, a reliable missile defense system is still years away, as are the threats it is meant to counter.