1.   There, people who chose low-fat restaurant meals were more satisfied than people who chose higher-fat foods in the same restaurants.

2.   For example, residents of some sparsely settled Massachusetts counties are less satisfied than more-populated areas in Maine, he said.

3.   In every study, people report that work allows them to feel useful and more satisfied than their leisure time.

4.   While black and Hispanic residents are also more optimistic than they were four years ago, they are notably less satisfied than whites with the state of the city.