The fact that most or all successful people are optimists does not guarantee that all optimists are successful.
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" The optimists are saying, in effect: "Use your imagination!
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For the moment, though, the optimists still have the momentum.
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Today's A.I., even optimists say, is early in that cycle.
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Optimists always think that Iran is about to behave better.
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Optimists have reason to expect improvement on the exit front.
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Optimists argue that the government has not completely abandoned reform.
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The biggest privacy optimists think the ascent will be slow.
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Optimists say that will soon translate into more business spending.
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Others, like Newsome suggest optimists just aren't facing the facts.
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The program Liberty City Optimists, I'm a founder of it.
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Optimists cite global expansion, but NN also tested that theory.
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Pessimism is now the mainstream, with optimists viewed as Pollyannas.
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But optimists should not break out the purple bunting yet.
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Optimists are the least prepared for the loss of hope.
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Optimists, especially in Alaska, still seek to rekindle that friendship.
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Once in place, say optimists, it can be beefed up.
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They're making a killing off of hapless optimists like me.
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"We're cautious optimists," says Vitaliy Shabunin, a prominent anti-corruption activist.
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At the start of 2018 the optimists had the better case.
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Optimists hope that he will offset extra spending with cuts elsewhere.
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Optimists talk of the OECD pulling together a deal by 2020.
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Optimists believe that Netflix can double today's 120m subscribers by 2022.
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Optimists claim that its army would not put up a fight.
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Even optimists can't ignore the organization's long history of internal divisions.
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When we launched WIRED, we were accused of being Panglossian optimists.
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It's enough to make even the sunniest of optimists bummed out.
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"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is not a song for optimists.
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Even optimists doubt that diplomacy in Geneva will prosper (see article).
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Some optimists argue instead that the problem is one of measurement.
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Arthur: They don't let many optimists join the Dismal Science Union.
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Optimists see the conference ending in the early hours of Saturday.
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There are time realists and time optimists, according to Ms. Morgenstern.
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Optimists reckon Beijing can stave off the worst with more stimulus.
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In October, the pessimists who saw business conditions as likely to worsen outnumbered the optimists by seven percentage points; the latest survey from December shows that the optimists now outnumber the pessimists by 50 percentage points.
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Optimists predicted that Bitcoin would do something similar in the financial sector.
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Optimists are even hoping an historic trade deal will still be reached.
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Optimists remind us that the cathedral had been damaged before and restored.
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These scientists remain optimists in the face of a possibly apocalyptic future.
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The optimists, by contrast, believe that markets are led by the economy.
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Moreover, even as optimists focus on Korea, nuclear restraints elsewhere are unravelling.
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Optimists note that America has real points of leverage, even without force.
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If this happens, optimists believe the congress may prove a turning-point.
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Admirable as the think-tank optimists may be, their hopes are delusional.
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Optimists hope that the political ruin can be reconstructed, piece by piece.
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The researchers found optimists had a much stronger immune response than pessimists.
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But liberal optimists were still pleased that the issue had been raised.
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Op-Ed Contributor All our lives, Jo and I had been optimists.
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There's plenty of grist in this scene for both pessimists and optimists.
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Politicians are always claiming to be eternal optimists; Reid is no optimist.
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Optimists tend to pursue strategies that make a rosy future a reality.
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But, "with every day going by, the optimists lost ground," he wrote.
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Tom Lee is known as one of Wall Street's biggest bitcoin optimists.
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Maybe you do — that's fine, and I appreciate the company of optimists.
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For optimists, let's hope that dominant leaders use their power to settle conflicts.
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Optimists predict that the city will be liberated from Islamic State within weeks.
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Among the optimists were three Viennese exiles who launched a fightback against totalitarianism.
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Going driverless could cut hailing costs by as much as 80%, say optimists.
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Optimists (and phonemakers) argue that a new wave of innovation could rejuvenate demand.
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Optimists point out that the share of bad loans has begun to fall.
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Optimists say that Mexico's democratic institutions have grown strong enough to resist backsliding.
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But my instinct is that the "Germany for optimists" is the more accurate.
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Optimists point out that countries have their own U-shape of female employment.
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" But this call has even those eternal optimists saying, "what the fuck, dude?
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Nonsense, reply "techno-optimists", who foresee huge advances in machine learning and robotics.
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But now it appears to be one of the planet's last, incorrigible optimists.
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For that reason, optimists hope it was an aberration—a security-service blunder.
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Optimists think the tech groups will work with the bank, not against it.
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Numerous studies have shown that optimists are physically and psychologically healthier than pessimists.
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Mr. Tungi and the others were optimists, hoping to sneak a few liters.
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"They say farmers are the world's biggest optimists," Hammond said, watching Perdue go.
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Optimists might marshal sophisticated molecular biological models to argue for a large fraction.
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But optimists like Elliptic's chief executive think this could be starting to change.
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It doesn't seem like that model has caught in the way optimists hoped.
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But optimists like investor Chad Anderson of Space Angels say that market is unlimited.
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You know, I'm one of the biggest optimists about what's possible out of Twitter.
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"On the debate of whether technology is replacing or enhancing we're optimists," Baciu says.
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The optimists about the situation see this as creative destruction that pushes forward humanity.
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But for the optimists of Silicon Valley, it is only a matter of time.
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Optimists point to the appointment in July of Sri Mulyani Indrawati as finance minister.
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Optimists can at least point to one trade pact that is close to completion.
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Germany for optimists Germany has generously taken in over 1m people in two years.
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Chinese optimists call time their ally, as Taiwan's population ages and its economy slows.
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But optimists will note that the trend has slowed in the past five years.
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Like commuters whose train has finally pulled in, optimists feel their time has come.
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On the other hand there are the optimists imbued with a sense of "Ramaphoria".
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Nostalgia serves optimists and pessimists alike as an anchor in a world being transformed.
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Some optimists guessed more than 50,000, which would be close to an industry record.
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Optimists say that as long as the majority switch over, policymakers will tolerate stragglers.
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We weren't just blind followers of fantasies, but vulnerable optimists striving for something more.
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With Trump, the optimists believe, Republicans might have another Barry Goldwater on their hands.
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That left the index at 99.6, just below the level where optimists match pessimists.
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Optimists, of course, are frequently disappointed, which is why we're often mistaken for cynics.
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Paradoxically, however, the Panmunjom Declaration has left skeptics more skeptical and optimists more optimistic.
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Long-term optimists in the analyst community are giving Goldman Sachs too much credit.
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That group of health care optimists makes up about one-third of Trump supporters.
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The wildest optimists predicted that maybe in six decades each sequencing would cost $1,000.
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Based on Jeter's track record, the reasoning among optimists goes, success surely will follow.
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Research like this inclines me to believe that the optimists have a good point.
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Optimists say the debate itself over the Sagamihara victims' anonymity gives cause for hope.
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Plus, the country still has many optimists who say this rough patch won't last.
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For the optimists in the audience, Google Brain wants to improve lives, Dean wrote.
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Optimists argued that Apple was capable of translating health data into something meaningful for consumers.
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Optimists talk of manufacturing molecule-sized machines ranging from drug-delivery devices to miniature computers.
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THE most striking battle in modern business pits the techno-optimists against the techno-pessimists.
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But the creators at Brud are optimists about the effect their fantasy story could have.
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Now, though the most recent data favour the optimists, they seem to be losing conviction.
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Optimists maintain that the benefits of a depreciation take a long time to filter through.
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Why, ask the optimists, do we care who does the work, if it benefits patients?
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Optimists chirp that this is Congo's first peaceful transfer of power since independence in 215.
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This might change as optimists believe that the UN will overturn its ban from 1988.
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Optimists say that because of the boost from tax cuts, stocks are not wildly overpriced.
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As Victor Sebestyen points out in his new book, "2503", optimists were in short supply.
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We're optimists, believers that surely something will come along that will, at last, demystify deceit.
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Maybe, argue optimists, the world is better at sharing this resource than is often assumed.
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The bubble would burst — leaving even some optimists with a bleak outlook on tech's future.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it's the optimists among us who are successful.
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Time optimists, by comparison, are just that: hopeful about things they would like to do.
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This is the first time in the president's tenure when pessimists have clearly outnumbered optimists.
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"Optimists also tend to have better coping skills and are better problem-solvers," Rozanski said.
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It is a peculiar time for realistic optimists in Washington, inside this church and out.
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Richard Cook, one of the top managers for the rovers, was not among the optimists.
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"Optimists also tend to have better coping skills and are better problem-solvers," he continued.
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Optimists respond that the previous low was followed by decades of Democratic dominance after the 1930s.
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Optimists explained away traders' apparent pessimism using arguments that have started to crop up again today.
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When Mr Ghani took office in 2014, the optimists outnumbered the pessimists by 55% to 40%.
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Optimists say that the wall will never happen, and that NAFTA could get a useful updating.
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Optimists in the SPD hope such worries would force the CDU to back down on policy.
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You guessed it: Optimists were half as likely as pessimists to require re-hospitalization following surgery.
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He finds, as such sweeping looks tend to, that both optimists and pessimists have a case.
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That will eventually happen, say the optimists, it's just taking an unusually long time to effect.
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This, optimists claim, will extend life for many people to today's ceiling of 120 or so.
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Optimists will see this as a sign that Snapchat has a lot of room to grow.
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So in some sense all CEOs have to be optimists in order to do their jobs.
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Such optimists thus argue that the idea of methane seeping from the crater cannot be discounted.
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" Sandberg urged students to choose the third option, calling it the choice of "clear-eyed optimists.
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Some optimists point out that the conditions persist for creating tidal bores, albeit of lesser intensity.
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The optimists tend to be technologists and venture capitalists, and many are clustered in technology hubs.
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But what if it works for the economy roughly as promised by the tax cut optimists?
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In the 18th century, Voltaire mocked optimists for their naïveté and celebrated pessimists for their lucidity.
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And even if there were some truth to the optimists' case, it's about the long run.
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Optimists might argue that those trillions bought a 21st-century Asian equivalent of the American dream.
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But it is getting much closer than optimists might have imagined only a few years ago.
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The highest-scoring optimists also had the greatest odds of living to age 85 or beyond.
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Yet for A.I. optimists, this increasing attention to risks shouldn't be cause for discouragement or exasperation.
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Like all good techno-optimists, Kaku believes growing up must mean getting out to the stars.
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Once Republicans were optimists about their country; under Trump they see only "American carnage" and decay.
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Once Republicans were optimists about their country; under Trump they see only "American carnage" and decay.
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Yet even optimists have got to worry about the costs of mismanaging this period of history.
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None of the sectors had a reading below 50, the level which separates optimists from pessimists.
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Optimists think that strife and chaos in Brasília will not hinder reforms, and might even help.
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The optimists envision rides so cheap that personal car ownership becomes a thing of the past.
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Like many AR optimists, he's hoping that analysts' big projections for the medium will pan out.
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The index was down 1.4% from a year earlier at 22.73, meaning optimists just outnumbered pessimists.
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That's the newly discovered TRAPPIST-1 system, current darling of exoplanetary enthusiasts and alien-life optimists.
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Despite some optimists saying federal legalization is right around the corner, Baltz doesn't think it'll happen soon.
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Climate optimists argue that it is possible to reduce our production emissions without substantially changing our lifestyles.
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Optimists hope the end of the funding froth will have kiboshed only firms with bad business plans.
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But spy agencies benefit from having sincere optimists in charge, since the paranoia will always supply itself.
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Optimists may dismiss the two IPOs as isolated events, but there is a deeper trend towards autocracy.
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That left the index 1.1 percent down on April last year at 95.1, meaning pessimists outnumbered optimists.
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Optimists think this week showed that it is only a matter of time before the regime fragments.
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By way of precedent, such optimists cite beneficial foreign pressure on China when it entered the WTO.
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Japan was the only economy with a sentiment subindex below 50 - the level separating optimists from pessimists.
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That left the index 0.8 percent higher versus May last year at 103.2, meaning optimists outnumbered pessimists.
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As the era of social media kicked in, the techno-optimists' twin articles of faith looked unassailable.
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But, if nothing else, we Americans are rugged optimists, imbued with a faith that things get better.
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Optimists see this as evidence of a spectacular opportunity to enter the market and make a profit.
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Optimists argue that this is part of a lengthy hangover from the recession, which should soon end.
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Optimists hope that congressional Republicans have a pain threshold, a quiet, privately drawn line-in-the-sand.
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Samuel S. Wang, a Princeton University professor of neuroscience and a longstanding elections analyst, leads the optimists.
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The optimists point out, moreover, that the unemployment rate never reached such heights during previous industrial revolutions.
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There are plenty of optimists as well as pessimists when it comes to technology and growth forecasts.
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The index was up 9.8 percent on July last year at 106.1, meaning optimists clearly outnumbered pessimists.
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But we Russians are optimists ... so we are hoping for the best, while preparing for the worst.
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To the optimists, Tesla began 2500 on strong footing after pulling off an impressive comeback last year.
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But where optimists see a more engaged electorate, critics are warning that the move is dangerously irresponsible.
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The index was down 8.6% from a year earlier, and at 92.8 indicated pessimists far outnumbered optimists.
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Still, the optimists hope for an agreement on the most basic issue: a tariff-free trade deal.
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Climate optimists have always hoped for a broad consensus in favor of measures to save the planet.
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Optimists point to the 2017 election, when May blew a 21-point lead and lost her majority.
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Optimists will see a chance for Mr Trump to reset his national-security apparatus after a false start.
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Bitcoin could render banks obsolete much as the internet had rendered newspapers and record stores irrelevant, optimists thought.
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Still, while we can appreciate Ballard's mastery of the dystopian form, here at Mashable, we're die-hard optimists.
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GE optimists, spurred by Culp's actions, have fueled a 93 percent rally from the stock's low in December.
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Optimists fare better; they treat failure as learning experiences and believe they can do better in the future.
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When Italy joined the euro, optimists assumed that being locked into a currency with Germany would discipline it.
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Houston's optimists also argue that the full geological potential of Texas's Permian basin has only just become apparent.
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Moreover, recent research has showed that these negative effects are often longer lasting than optimists had once believed.
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Forging a public policy response represents an opportunity for the optimists and pessimists to collaborate rather than debate.
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Optimists say that plans to cut red tape and increase public investment will lift Russia's GDP growth potential.
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Optimists point out that technology always displaces labour, but that new jobs are created around the new methods.
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"India is a country that disappoints both optimists and pessimists," notes Ruchir Sharma of Morgan Stanley, a bank.
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"Only the greatest optimists expect that (TTIP) can be completed this year," Mitterlehner told the APA news agency.
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FACEBOOK has defied even optimists' projections of how big the 12-year-old firm could one day become.
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If the optimists turn out to be correct, it will mean that deficits will come down even faster.
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The index was still up 3.4 percent on March last year at 102.4, meaning optimists just outnumbered pessimists.
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E-scooters are super fun and poised to change urban transportation as we know it, say the optimists.
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"The optimists naively assume that UBI will be a catalyst for people to reinvent themselves professionally," he wrote.
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In addition, in 2015 optimists had a 52% probability of surviving another year, while pessimists were at 48%.
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If bitcoin becomes a de facto global standard for transferring money across borders, that could justify optimists' hopes.
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It might seem like there are two competing schools of thought: the AI pessimists and the AI optimists.
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Optimists have expressed hopes that his absence could give the political parties in Belfast more room for maneuver.
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As optimists have noted, Chicagoist has an incredible opportunity to help local writers of color develop their talent.
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Optimists believe that rising wages are key to raising this figure, as well as policies that encourage work.
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It is the first time the reading fell below 100 since October 2019, meaning pessimists slightly outnumber optimists.
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Optimists are people who expect good things to happen to them, while pessimists expect bad things to happen.
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Optimists also believe they have control over their fate and can create opportunities for good things to happen.
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Optimists point to recent evidence that Trump's special representative to North Korea, Stephen Biegun has been gaining traction.
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Our challenge now is to be clear-eyed optimists, or to paraphrase President Kennedy, optimists without illusions: To build technology that improves lives and gives voice to those who often have none while preventing misuse, to build teams that better reflect the world around us with all its complexity and diversity.
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Optimists were creative with their praise of Mr Trump's plans: some described them as Keynesian; others thought them Reaganesque.
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I gathered all my experiences and wrote a book called F*** It. Get A Divorce: The Guide for Optimists.
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Aside from that, optimists might find it somewhat sad that you're meeting someone based on what you both hate.
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Surrounded by bankruptcy and devastation, even the optimists struggled to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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All in all, optimists think the environmental damage caused by a one-term Trump administration could be relatively limited.
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Optimists outside Turkey hope that it would inspire him to be conciliatory in an attempt to unite the country.
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Ethereum optimists might analogize Bitcoin as the FTP of this transactional Internet, with Ethereum as its World Wide Web.
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Optimists still think that Mr Xi could spring a surprise after a big Communist Party congress later this year.
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Optimists will say that rising labor costs should eventually incentivize companies to invest more heavily in labor-saving equipment.
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Optimists note that complaints about corruption, unemployment and the lack of prospects fuelled the "Arab spring" uprisings in 2011.
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If productivity optimists are right, the eventual problem may not be the quantity of available work, but its quality.
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"We're a nation of optimists," she tells PEOPLE in this week's special 100 Reasons to Love America double issue.
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Optimists hope that bitcoin futures will become well-established and even make underlying markets more robust by dampening volatility.
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Optimists note the cacophonous rise of bloggers and social-media sites on commercial platforms such as Weibo or WeChat.
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Thanks to him, optimists everywhere came to believe that hatred was a misunderstanding and that contact could fix it.
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It represents an opportunity—so optimists believe—to build genuine trust in the country's institutions, especially its highest courts.
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For this very reason, Rieff understands that most of his own short book has to be directed against optimists.
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Even weak industrial numbers were not enough to convince the optimists; services are much bigger than manufacturing, after all.
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One benefit of this debating style is that you're much more likely to persuade the optimists in the audience.
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The network also includes independent media organs and some 40 young members of parliament who call themselves Euro-optimists.
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Dining | Long Island The owners of Platia Greek Kitchen, which opened in Syosset in early March, must be optimists.
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A century ago Progressives were the optimists, believing society could be improved, while conservatism saw the end-times approaching.
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Optimists understand that where the nation has faults, it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Economic optimists have for years been misguidedly predicting the twilight of the boring, safety-first bond market.
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The index was still down 7.0% from a year earlier, and at 97.0 indicated pessimists continued to outnumber optimists.
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Construction and engineering firms ranked lowest in sentiment with a subindex of 64 - the level separating optimists from pessimists.
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Once again, however, with only one example to draw from, it's back to a battle between pessimists and optimists.
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Yet on a tactical basis in the short term, the aggressive equity optimists have a bit more to prove.
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This can mean that economic optimists ignore inconvenient stock market plunges and that pessimists self-servingly dismiss the rallies.
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The net is certainly more open to systematic and systemic attack than some early web optimists like me thought.
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Technological optimists say we have a long, populous future ahead (and therefore we're still early in that glorious destiny).
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Zuckerberg and his inner circle are known as optimists who see the potential of technology to improve our lives.
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Optimists may portray current shifts as just a midcourse correction, while pessimists see it as a long-term trend.
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Democrats win with broad-vision optimists who still shake up the system — Franklin Roosevelt, of course, but also Obama.
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Optimists hope that the prime minister will produce an improved offer and that, with the clock ticking toward Oct.
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The sacred-profane world of "The Leftovers" may be ending, but — let's be optimists here — you still have time.
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Most of the optimists see the challenge as difficult and complex, with 20% saying they feel only "somewhat" confident.
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Many debated whether this might put the country on the path to democratic reform; optimists predicted the system's opening.
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His essay highlights a special Time issue, titled "The Optimists," guest-edited by philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
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The index was still down 8.0% from a year earlier, and at 95.5 indicated pessimists continued to outnumber optimists.
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American optimists have come to believe that in moments of crisis, we will find our best, most altruistic selves.
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And doubtless, some Republican optimists will offer themselves the spin that gains in the Senate offset losses in the House.
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The slight dip still left the index 7.2 percent higher on June last year at 102.2, with optimists outnumbering pessimists.
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Occupation: Serial tech entrepreneur, author of F*** It. Get A Divorce: The Guide for Optimists and founder & C.E.O. of gethappy.life.
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"Counter to intuition, optimists were not immune to feeling a rise in pessimism at the moment of truth," Sweeny said.
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Optimists will say, at least someone is trying to drag the average classroom forward into a more creative, polished space.
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Even those eternal optimists amongst the 67,000 present must have feared the worst after a woeful opening by the hosts.
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Wall Street optimists still wanting to say the pain trade is higher are left with citing retail-investor fund flows.
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Optimists say they can ride it out until voters turf PiS from office at the next election, in late 2019.
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Optimists argue that interdependence will be disarmed once it has served its purpose in the latest Sino-American trade tussle.
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The AI pessimists and optimists may seem locked into their own worldviews, with little apparent overlap between their projected futures.
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But Sharot also tells me optimists work harder and longer, which might lead to higher pay and more professional success.
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Actors Artem Bystrov and Cazimir Liske, playing Soviet and American diplomats, during a break on the set of ''The Optimists.
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Wiener foresaw several problems with this incipient state of affairs that Alan Turing and other early AI optimists largely overlooked.
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Of course, optimists believe that Jones will still be allowed to compete, and this could turn out to be true.
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Sales of iPads have wilted, and Apple's watch, released last year, has not sold as well as optimists had predicted.
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But optimists like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen believe it has tremendous potential.
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Let us give praise to those hopeful insane optimists,who we clutched with great force in our arrogant, muscular fists.
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The lower house's approval of the bill by a crushing 22015 votes to 216 stunned even the most fervent optimists.
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Bill Gates is known for being one of the world's biggest optimists, in addition to one of its largest philanthropists.
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"China has torpedoed the hopes of the optimists," David Hufton, of oil brokers PVM Oil Associates, said in a note.
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Optimists hope that COVID-2628 will be either completely eradicated or at least relegated to the same status as H28500N6900.
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But it was still below the benchmark of 100, which means those pessimistic about the economic situation outnumber the optimists.
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The index was down a hefty 6.2% from a year earlier, and at 93.4 indicated pessimists continued to outnumber optimists.
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The index was down a hefty 6.2% from a year earlier, and at 93.4 indicated pessimists continued to outnumber optimists.
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Optimists speculatively grabbed him as high as the second or third pick in the draft, while pessimists cautiously steered clear.
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England, Mr. Pierson said, is "one of the most cynical markets in the world," and the co-founders were optimists.
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The index was down a hefty 8.9% from a year earlier, and at 1.13 indicated pessimists continued to outnumber optimists.
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AI optimists Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and business magnate Bill Gates think AI and humans can share a symbiotic relationship.
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Wall Street's recent volatility has optimists betting that buybacks could provide the market with an even better buffer in 2019.
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He was among the last optimists working on a House version of the Senate immigration reform bill passed in 2013.
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As Silicon Valley's representative in the US Congress and as CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, we are technology optimists.
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But EU optimists say a campaign that grabs more people's attention could reinvigorate post-Brexit efforts to pull the EU together.
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Optimists point to experienced and distinguished generals and businessmen appointed to Mr Trump's cabinet as a restraint on government by edict.
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But he makes two really good points that throw quite a lot of cold water on the claims of techno-optimists.
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Optimists reckon that Snap's market value could increase more than fourfold from around $26bn today as it adds users and advertisers.
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Here's the simple truth: A green way forward will now cost far less than even the optimists imagined a decade ago.
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Optimists argue that brinkmanship has always been part of California's water wars and no one has ever careened over the edge.
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Scarce resources and limited time encouraged the directors, who together make up a creative partnership called Desperate Optimists, to be experimental.
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Economic optimists and bank investors wanted a steeper yield curve; it seems we have one — at least in the early going.
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Optimists hope for a repeat of a familiar pattern, where a period of retrenchment is followed by a spurt of reform.
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Optimists wave this away with breezy talk of Lebanon's "resilience" and hope that wealthy Gulf patrons will come to the rescue.
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Optimists hope that, since investors will be better able to assess insurers, the new rules might lower their cost of capital.
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Optimists hope Nigeria is in the very early stages of another turnaround, but there have already been a few false dawns.
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Cautious optimists, like Debanshu Mukherjee of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, a think-tank in Delhi, talk of teething troubles.
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Optimists think that, even if it flops, the EU's relations with an important neighbour will have emerged from the deep freeze.
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Perhaps there is a connection between interest in economics and the avoidance of war, but the optimists had the causality backwards.
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The IEA said that while some commentators were too bearish, optimists had to look at the cold hard facts affecting prices.
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Optimists hope it will be followed by other meetings round the country and so, at long last, by a national reckoning.
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The index was down 3.5% from a year earlier, and at 100.00 indicated there were now as many optimists as pessimists.
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This reality has prompted disparate reactions among his opponents, who can divided between pessimists (or realists, some might say) and optimists.
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"The saying goes that optimists tend to be successful and pessimists tend to be right" Zuckerberg explained at the November forum.
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Greg Ferenstein, author of "The Age of Optimists," a book about tech and politics, has studied start-up founders' political views.
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Optimists point to expressions of concern from China's top leadership as an indicator that the government will give businesses more room.
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Quietly, optimists in the business say that it may be healthy for a younger generation of editors to take the reins.
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The optimists will rejoice that resistance to nationalism and far-right ideologues brought out so many voters, many of them young.
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Some e-waste optimists envision a "circular economy" in which refurbished, reused and recycled raw materials help fuel a sustainable future.
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Whether the optimists or pessimists prove more prescient about the economy's trajectory, Mr. Summers said, the split in perceptions will persist.
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Dr. Alan Rozanski, the author of the study, says optimists tend to have better health habits, like exercising and eating well.
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Mainstream journalism in this strange era may be freer than the fearful anticipate, but not actually better as the optimists expect.
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After all, it is the optimists who are best equipped to find solutions to global problems – because they believe they can.
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The strongest backlash against Gordon has come from techno-optimists in Silicon Valley, who assure us that more wonders are coming soon.
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If the Bitcoin optimists are right that the current valuation is solid (or has capacity to grow), you might be rightfully disappointed.
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Turns out optimists (you know, the one group of people who are supposed to be happy) aren't as optimistic as we thought.
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This is high by historical standards, but optimists insist it is justified because earnings will be improving later in the year. Maybe.
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Optimists quickly recall the potential to be the next Facebook or Airbnb, but their memories forget about Groupon, One Kings Lane, fab.
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In contrast, techno-optimists claim that human superiority, which defined intelligence activities over the last century, is already bowing to technological superiority.
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Rapid advances in many areas have supported the optimists' case that the gremlins in the new techniques can be overcome in time.
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Rumor has it he might stay at City and ride the bench (or "fight for his place," for you optimists out there).
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Be smart: Optimists point out that the tech pendulum has always swung from concentrations of centralized power to periods of decentralizing breakthroughs.
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It seemed as if the same pessimists on Wall Street have now turned into cockeyed optimists that think things have really changed.
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When we look into the future, whether we're optimists or pessimists, the one thing we don't see is more of the same.
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Sifting the data reveals telling patterns: for instance, EFL found that young optimists are risky, but old ones are a safe bet.
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The optimists believe the free market will always create enough jobs and wealth for those believing enough in themselves to get it.
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That's slightly on the high side, but optimists also argue that a multiple expansion is justified, because earnings are going to expand.
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Optimists will say this is why the ugly corporate-earnings news expected to arrive starting this week will be fine for stocks.
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Separately, a survey of Australian consumers showed sentiment remained below average despite three interest rate cuts since June, with pessimists outnumbering optimists.
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Right now, relatively few homeowners are selling in response to this worry — "pessimists are selling to optimists," as one source tells Flavelle.
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"We are late-cycle optimists and think 2018 is set to be another year of good, albeit flatter returns," added Mueller-Glissmann.
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But EU optimists also say a campaign that grabs more people's attention could reinvigorate post-Brexit efforts to pull the EU together.
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But we're product optimists, so we like to view it at its best: a personal means for taking action and adding value.
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Optimists contend that the Fed's monetary policy has been close to ideal, and that the stock and bond markets are reacting appropriately.
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It is in this sense, unanticipated by optimists like Mr. Obama, that the 21st century is proving to be the American Century.
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And we've got a wall of worrywarts which you wonder if we could still convert a few of those to some optimists.
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Optimists though, hold out hope that all this genetic testing can get us to a fairer place, a place with less suffering.
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Optimists, including May herself, point to the continuing talks as a sign she can still deliver a Brexit deal before March 29.
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"The number of optimists has declined, though there are still some in this room," the tycoon told the audience of business people.
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In each of these cases, optimists a few years ago argued that we needed to give the products more time to mature.
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"For the first time in 28 years there are more optimists than pessimists in Poland," proclaimed Mateusz Morawiecki, the economy and finance minister.
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It's not surprising that Silicon Valley — a place that grew rich and powerful by building the internet economy — is full of technology optimists.
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Optimists hope equivalence could not just form the basis of a feasible deal, but might even allow Britain to remove some onerous regulations.
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Optimists say that America, with its immense diversity, wealth and reserves of human ingenuity and resilience can take all this in its stride.
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THERE was a time when optimists saw a glimmer of a chance for the development of democracy under Communist Party rule in China.
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The only wriggle-room that optimists in Europe can see would involve America granting case-by-case waivers as part of that process.
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"(China) optimists focused on corporate growth; pessimists fear liquidity trap ... note warning signs for big Q1'19 slowdown & further CNY depreciation," the report said.
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Optimists have held onto the hope that even if the Fed moves more aggressively, it will be doing so for the right reasons.
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Researchers from the University of Kentucky went so far as to inject optimists and pessimists with a virus to measure their immune response.
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Early in this presidency, optimists believed that when Trump suddenly veered wildly from one position to another it was because of canny tactics.
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The optimists — let's not call them bulls — have been pointing to China, passing around climate charts that show pollution emissions there are increasing.
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"We're advertising people, we're optimists," McQueen, who died at 22016 in July after a struggle with lung cancer, once said in a speech.
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While optimists doubled down, even those analysts caught in the middle of the bull and bear fight tried to explain missing the rally.
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There are optimists, but they rarely expect much, just a few mildly successful fightbacks from beleaguered supporters of multi-party, minimum-corruption democracy.
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Technological optimists have argued for years that artificial intelligence, machine learning, advanced robotics, augmented reality and other areas offer huge potential efficiency gains.
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Optimists hope that dialogue might lead to a restoration of the opposition's political rights and an agreement on resolving Venezuela's economic and humanitarian crises.
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The index, compiled from a survey of 1,200 people, was down 4 percent from a year earlier at 98.8, meaning pessimists now outnumbered optimists.
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The Chinese authorities at last appear to have acknowledged the problem—and are administering a cure in doses that have surpassed even optimists' expectations.
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If anything in Autonomy might leave a bad taste in the mouth of techno-optimists, it's Gladwell and his skepticism getting the final word.
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"We are the poster child of optimists with dashed hopes, without a celebrity to tout our cause, much like any small town," he said.
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Optimists had hoped that Mr Karimov's death would bring change, but all the signs suggest the regime he built is as entrenched as ever.
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In this respect, the optimists were helped by a fairly emollient acceptance speech from Mr Trump and the very vagueness of his policy proposals.
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Even if the optimists are right, and the ban is lifted in exchange for trade concessions, a return to business as usual seems unlikely.
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For better and worse, the company is populated by optimists who are skilled at seeing the best-case scenarios, but sometimes miss the worst.
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And even if it loses some of its EU-related business, optimists think that revenues from the rest of the world will grow faster.
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At the Gorki Leninskie manor on the set of ''The Optimists,'' I inspect the actors playing the Americans, who have just emerged from makeup.
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Both optimists and pessimists have been scrutinising the current session of the NPC, which began on March 5th, for clues about Mr Xi's intentions.
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The December reading, compiled from a survey of 1,200 people, was up 1.1 percent on a year earlier at 104.4, meaning optimists outnumbered pessimists.
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" The Berkshire Hathaway CEO said he is sympathetic to optimists who bought the world's largest cryptocurrency in hopes that "it would change their lives.
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Optimists believe that drone-racing could follow the trajectory of e-sports, in which increasing numbers of people watch other people play video games.
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But the deal also includes a vague promise of far more substantial resettlements to Europe: optimists have spoken of 200,000 a year or more.
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Optimists think the liquidity risks are manageable: if savers were to lose faith in WMPs, their cash would probably flow back into bank accounts.
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As in the early 28503s, today's optimists believe that the current administration will cure what ails defense in the next four to eight years.
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Seligman's findings are similar to research conducted by the Mayo Clinic that found optimists have lower levels of cardiovascular disease and longer life-spans.
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Like Veblen, Sanders spends much of his time denouncing the excesses of others, but at heart he is one of the world's greatest optimists.
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The index, compiled from a survey of 1,200 people, was up 1 percent from a year earlier at 103.8, meaning optimists now outnumbered pessimists.
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Optimists, eyes on the polls, hope that Mr. Trump, in losing, will discredit these views and that Republicans next year will sue for peace.
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Ignoring the broad public good for immediate compassion, "immigration optimists" fail to fully reckon with the transformed economic landscape greeting this generation of arrivals.
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Optimists believe that the global economy this year can still grow 25 percent, the pace it maintained during the post-World War II miracle.
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The Midwest, the optimists say, also has ample tech talent, with excellent engineers coming out of major state and private universities in the region.
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Either way, optimists may find solace in U.S. futures markets trading up slightly this morning, which hints at a brighter start for the day.
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If inveterate optimists on his team, like Kudlow, haven't warned him of that, one senior White House official expressed hope that outside voices can.
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And anyway, even if the optimists are wrong, there's always a survivalist bunker or two that the crypto super rich can hide out in.
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Biden said they "were optimists" and spoke about everything except his family's recent deaths and McCain's time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
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The vision of those whom Glantz describes as "e-cigarette optimists" is for smokers to switch completely from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, he said.
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The optimists were those who thought Mr. Trump would not have the energy to actually implement his agenda; the pessimists' thoughts veered toward disaster.
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Optimists about the venture say, if the company succeeds, it will most likely do so by finding strategies that improve care and reduce cost.
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Even the optimists said that after the photo op and warm words, getting a real commitment from North Korea on denuclearization remains far away.
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Why not let players start playing games for free, optimists asserted, and let funding comes from items bought in-game like boosts or cosmetics?
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Optimists hope that a clause soon to be inserted into China's funeral regulations, emphasising the need to respect the "dignity" of citizens, will discourage abuses.
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Instead, if technology optimists are correct that advanced economies will continue to need massive numbers of workers despite automation, hiring will continue to be tight.
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Optimists might say that China's regulators have shown more restraint in shoring up the stockmarket than they did in 2015, after an even bigger crash.
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Optimists may harbour hopes for a revival: high rollers are unpredictable, and before the downturn Crown's shares traded close to the offer price of $14.75.
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The second broad error made by optimists was to imagine that Western governments and organisations could explain to Chinese leaders where China's self-interest lay.
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A new study published in the Journal of Personality this week reveals that optimists and pessimists alike brace themselves for the worst when anticipating news.
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A poll of fund managers in December by Bank of America-Merrill Lynch found that pessimists on emerging markets outnumbered optimists by 27 percentage points.
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The simple reply is that the free, open, democratic internet dreamed up by the optimists of Silicon Valley was never more than a brief interlude.
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Optimists had once thought that Mr Xi, having secured political control, would eventually get around to using his power to attack foot-draggers on reform.
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Some optimists even think that, should Britain vote to leave the EU next month, the fear of disintegration could jolt the euro zone into action.
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The government and Afghanistan's international partners are counting on optimists like Najibullah to ensure the success of a ballot that is already three years overdue.
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Optimists point out that pretty much every recent American president went into office hoping to refresh relations with Moscow, only to see those efforts stall.
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Finally, Navarro rejects the view held by optimists in the United States who believe that China will become more open and less authoritarian over time.
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With intense scrutiny on tech's role in shortening attention spans, amplifying divisions and spreading misinformation, many guests had a new name for themselves: techno-optimists.
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It's common for these types of plans to go unfunded, and even the most wide-eyed optimists don't expect the money to materialize anytime soon.
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In an interview, Dr. Lee said that optimists are better able than pessimists to reframe challenging circumstances and react to them in less stressful ways.
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Optimists hope that this show of resolve might persuade the European side to offer the sort of concessions it has so far refused to contemplate.
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"Optimists in Moscow and Washington hope that the U.S.-Russian relationship wouldn't decline any further," Mr. Trenin wrote in a piece on the Carnegie website.
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Meanwhile, Grant Halvorson underscores how unrealistic optimists believe that success will happen to them as a reward from the universe for all their positive thinking.
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Today, unfortunately Mr. Haines has passed away, while the bull market still remains, and may even have more room to grow, according to some optimists.
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The real optimists even believe this trade conflict could create more value as China opens up markets and stands down from its unfair trade practices.
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I think it's really wonderful that tech optimists wanna open up the world and wanna connect and wanna provide tools for people to connect. Absolutely.
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Optimists look to well-run Estonia which, having lost 17% of its population since its liberation from Soviet rule, has lately enjoyed a small net inflow.
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HOWEVER swiftly and recklessly Congress appeared to be barrelling toward a government shutdown on January 18th and 19th, optimists had one reason to hold out hope.
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Optimists have long clung to the hope that what the RAND Corporation, in a newly published study, calls "truth decay" can be vanquished with clearer thinking.
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Now, he argues that — if the new age of automation turns out as "well" as prior tech cycles, as optimists predict — we should be truly worried.
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Optimists, inside and outside Germany, say a government without the FDP could be a blessing in disguise, even if it will take a while to build.
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Optimists think Mr Díaz-Canel will guide Cuba towards the path taken by China and Vietnam, where communist parties liberalised the economy without yielding political control.
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Optimists are great for the economy because their unreasonable risk-taking is an engine of innovation... On average, however, they are not particularly good for themselves.
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Optimists are frequently disappointed I should have realized earlier, when Musk was talking about restaurants in his spaceship, that this was not the plan I wanted.
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Optimists argue that the clear pattern of history is that creating more value with fewer resources has led to rising material wealth and prosperity for centuries.
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"With some upward revision for euro zone growth for this year and next, the ECB should join the growing choir of euro zone optimists," he added.
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Optimists in Britain say the deep economic, military, intelligence-sharing and cultural ties across the Atlantic are strong enough to survive the occasional Trump Twitter storm.
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Still, the government's monthly roundup contained enough conflicting data that optimists and pessimists around the country and in Washington could find evidence to support their outlook.
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Back in December, a poll of fund managers by Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) found that pessimists on global bonds outnumbered optimists by 214 percentage points.
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Optimists say a new electoral law that institutes proportional representation will make it easier for reformers to win seats when Lebanon holds parliamentary elections on May 6th.
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"America is a melting pot" is still a widely accepted idea, one voiced by immigrants and natural-born citizens alike, by whites and minorities, ideologues and optimists.
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Optimists, however, are holding out, saying President Xi Jinping is taking the time now to put supporters in place to help push through the big reforms later.
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But the Great Silver Lining of It All, optimists say, is that New York's streets will be undergoing massive and much-needed changes to absorb that fallout.
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Optimists in Germany and the union see in new elections a potential opening to a new generation of leaders who could imbue Germany with a fresh dynamism.
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As some of the optimists note, China's debt is public, not private, which means that the risks are largely borne by the state, which has deeper pockets.
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Economy: The heads of America's largest banks have been some of the country's most prominent optimists, championing Trump administration policies and dismissing concerns about the trade war.
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The perpetual optimists are holding tight to the hopes of an eventual spillover from soft into hard data, and/or Washington-induced reform finally coming to fruition.
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Housing optimists are pinning their bets on strong U.S. job creation, low interest rates, tight housing supply, robust earnings estimates and a lack of recessionary red flags.
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Optimists like SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son are doing everything to bring about the singularity, which they believe could be the greatest thing to ever happen to mankind.
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But optimists hoped and assumed that when the higher-scoring elementary school kids got older and moved into the high school population, we would start seeing results.
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Optimists pointed to the experience of Facebook, which, despite a poor IPO and share price that sagged for months, eventually became one of the world's most valuable companies.
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Which we, being the eternal optimists of online club culture writing, to mean "Let's let the music do the talking," which is exactly what we're going to do.
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Optimists argue that the strong conditions attached to the promise of visa liberalisation will bring Turkey back into the European fold and help stem its descent into authoritarianism.
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Optimists point out that three decades ago almost no African countries had term limits; since then, some 33 of 48 new constitutions enacted in Africa have included them.
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Optimists have made the case that the Japanese public is more accepting of previously unthinkable strategic steps, recognizing that there's a heightened threat from China and North Korea.
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The optimists and speechwriters want the answer to clearly be yes, however the reality of recent attempts at replicating AirLand Battle's success have not always matched the rhetoric.
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Optimists suggest that when all the political bloviating has passed and the next president is actually in office, he or she will step up to address this issue.
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Optimists pushed up the share price of Twitter, another social-media firm whose growth prospects have been questioned, in the hope that a buyer might make a move.
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Skeptics will doubt that North Korea, given its ideology, can really move in this direction; optimists may now see the reunification of the Korean Peninsula on the horizon.
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Optimists think Beijing can play this game indefinitely, because the debt is domestically held, but eventually the banks will run short of money, in the form of deposits.
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Optimists are hopeful it could reduce the number of toddlers who end up getting fillings under general anesthesia, even though it may pose risks to their developing brains.
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That reserve of buying power, be it retail or institutional, has cushioned stock market drops in the past, and optimists are hoping that it will do so again.
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FRANKFURT — Car executives are paid to be optimists, but behind the pomp and salesmanship at the Frankfurt International Motor Show this week lurked an unmistakable sense of angst.
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Optimists, including McKinsey's Ms. Lund, say the asset managers now responsible for an outsized share of risky lending are neither as indebted nor as important as the banks.
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On the very same channel that will air ''The Optimists'' next year, the political commentator Dmitry Kiselev brags about Russia's ability to turn the United States into ''radioactive ash.
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The US, these optimists point out, is in the midst of an unstoppable clean-energy transition, with coal in decline and natural gas, wind, and solar on the rise.
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The sentiment index for big non-manufacturers slipped to plus 28 in March from plus 230, according to the poll, though a positive number means optimists still outnumber pessimists.
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Optimists assure themselves that they'll keep track of when the trial ends and they'll cancel before they are ever charged, if it turns out they don't want to continue.
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"Fierce optimists," she says, don't deny reality or have a Pollyanna-ish point of view; rather, they put their energy and effort into creating better outcomes from bad situations.
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Optimists point to China's history of responding to economic challenges: the 2008 lending surge, an earlier bailout of the banking system and a painful restructuring of state-owned enterprises.
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Clinton is attempting a delicate balancing act: insisting she is not satisfied with the economy even as she defends Mr. Obama's work, positioning Democrats as the party of optimists.
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Thompson is a lifelong environmentalist and tries to stay optimistic, having read that optimists live longer, yet, like so many earthlings these days, has trouble warding off eco-despair.
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As even optimists about self-driving cars temper forecasts on their arrival, testing in sunnier climates is seen as a way to move the technology out of first gear.
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The first three are turning in favor of Tesla optimists, Munster said, and the fourth is not a strong foundation for an argument against a company&aposs future prospects.
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But optimists see cause for confidence as once-stalled drilling in the Mediterranean resumes, additional tenders are issued and new customers sign up — or at least talk about it.
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Only time will tell whether these extremely dead optimists will once more, someday, get stuck in traffic, and/or roam an uncanny Singularity-scape with their AI-abetted computer brains.
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Automation optimists and pessimists have begun arguing over how the world will change, and whether a mix of artificial intelligence and industrial robotics might accelerate automation in an unprecedented fashion.
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The big danger is that, while optimists and pessimists battle it out, the world becomes ever more divided between islands of high productivity surrounded by a vast ocean of stagnation.
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Lowering interest rates would be a natural response to an economic downturn, but optimists have taken comfort from labour-market figures, which suggest that America's economy is still humming along.
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Optimists also argue that the rapid growth of things like Chinese mobile-phone brands shows that the Indian middle class is out there and spending—just not on Western brands.
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But optimists will remember similar clashes between America's president and Kim Jong Un, North Korea's despot, before they met in Singapore and "fell in love", as Mr Trump put it.
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An interesting recent piece by Greg Ip, a friend and former colleague now at the Wall Street Journal, helps illustrate why life might be harder for workers than optimists appreciate.
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However, there are some optimists out there: Capital Economics says that inflation data expected this weekend should provide a respite from fears that China's economy and financial markets are collapsing.
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The optimists say that mankind is only just beginning to exploit the potential gains of the internet and that GDP measures may not be capturing all of the recent gains.
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We have forgotten that America because it existed a long time ago, but it was just as real—perhaps more so—than some endlessly reinventing nation full of striving optimists.
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There are optimists who think that Medicare for more could be tailored to help the Obamacare markets by making them more attractive to young customers who haven't yet signed up.
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Optimists hope he is being eased out because of his habit of speaking his mind, thereby occasionally contradicting the government line, rather than to pave the way for retrograde policies.
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The optimists may be right that growth will pick up for the rest of 2016 as it did last year, but the trajectory of the economic recovery remains frustratingly uneven.
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Such a bounce would have bolstered the argument of the optimists on Wall Street, who believe the seven-year-old bull market can keep running despite being older than average.
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Optimists, then, have often argued that it's the RCTs that must be wrong — maybe there are persistent effects on what students learn even though most studies don't turn them up.
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Even the optimists say that the compromise bill's chance of passage is probably in Trump's hands: He alone has the power to pressure reluctant House Republicans into voting for it.
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Optimists clung to Trump's insistence that the two sides remained committed to talking as a sign there won't be an immediate return to the threats and tension of the past.
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Optimists hope that a pilot programme between Estonia and neighbouring Finland to share medical records, which enables travelling patients to pick up prescriptions in either country, could serve as a prototype.
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Optimists hope that having gotten what he has long desired, Erdoğan will abandon the confrontational style of recent years to make an at least partial return to his earlier reformist self.
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But in other respects they were a microcosm of our nation, then and now: they included alarmists, optimists, philosophers, bores, dealmakers, handwringers and comedians – like the 81-year-old Benjamin Franklin.
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Since both countries revealed their nuclear hands in the 1990s, optimists who thought that a "balance of terror" would encourage them to be more moderate have been proved only partially right.
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Optimists in Beijing now hope that, in the wake of Mr Kim's visit, Mr Xi may be able to limit some of the risks of the forthcoming summit with Mr Trump.
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Optimists speculate that if he follows through on his pledges to improve infrastructure and boost rural development, he might even leave the Philippines in a better condition than he found it.
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The optimists, however, believe that growth is within reach for watchmakers who are willing to embrace new ideas, even those the industry tends to reject out of hand: smartwatches, for example.
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But each had a past example of supposed success, each had adherents among the eternal optimists of military force in Washington think tanks, and each had its echoes in the press.
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"For the most part, this is the average of what the pessimists and the optimists have priced in," said Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist, at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia.
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"For the most part, this is the average of what the pessimists and the optimists have priced in," said Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia.
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Nadella cited concerns from economic Robert Gordon, who has argued the so-called "Digital Revolution" is not acting as a profound catalyst for growth across industries despite what "techno-optimists" say.
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Ever the optimists, many noted that, as is typical of the fair here, collectors were taking their time to learn about the artists, putting down reserves and finalizing the purchases later.
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Such optimists are confident that CEO Tim Cook can continue to expand and enrich the iPhone experience in the years ahead with new technologies such as artificial intelligence software and augmented reality.
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Optimists believe gay superstardom is only a matter of time, given the growing demand for not only queer actors but queer writers and directors to be able to tell their own stories.
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We would much rather support Trump, if not as enthusiastic optimists, then at least as Sigh-OK voters, convinced that he has earned our support despite being far from our top choice.
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Optimists put their faith in new drugs, better delivery systems and technologies as yet unknown: there is even the prospect of a vaccine for HIV, though certainly at least five years away.
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The optimists pointed to the climate deal struck in Paris in December as a sign of what policymakers can still do at a global level when they put their minds to it.
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Oil prices fell more than $2 a barrel, wiping out early gains after the U.S. government reported a weekly crude draw that was within analysts' forecasts, while market optimists expected larger declines.
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Yet surfing his channel, called Beni, is like seeing an alternate YouTube—a vision of what the company might have been like had Silicon Valley's optimists actually been right about human behavior.
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Ultimately, they found that none of the studies yielded a significant statistical difference between optimists and pessimists when it comes to the tendency to brace for the worst while waiting for news.
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Second, the fact that even ardent optimists brace for the worst suggests that bracing is an adaptive strategy for managing our emotional reactions to uncertainty and to the news we ultimately receive.
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Since "right to buy" and "starter homes" were manifesto pledges in the general election of 2015, even optimists in the upper house recognise that it will be hard to amend them radically.
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Technologists like to believe they're improving the world — in Twitter's case, building mutual understanding and tolerance through open discourse — but Twitter Nazis are doing their best to prove the techno-optimists wrong.
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That would provide the best defence in the event that the pessimists are right and the impact of artificial intelligence proves to be more rapid and more dramatic than the optimists expect.
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So, I think that the optimists are going to be rewarded over the balance of the year and the market is going to surprise on the upside in spite of these uncertainties.
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Optimists hailed Monday's nearly 2592.58 percent jump in the blue-chip CSI21 Index - the biggest one-day gain in three years - as the starting shot of a new round of bull run.
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Optimists have a 35% less chance of having a heart attack or stroke, are more likely to eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly, have stronger immune systems; and even live longer.
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Among Democrats, the younger the respondent, the less pessimism it takes to prefer Sanders to Clinton, though the pattern of economic optimists supporting Clinton more than Sanders is consistent across age groups.
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In his new book, "Thank You for Being Late," Friedman offers a guide for optimists in the "age of acceleration," his catchall term for rapid change in technology, business and the climate.
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General manager Marc Bergevin has already played his vote-of-confidence card, and it was only a few weeks ago that some foolish optimists were still calling the Habs a potential playoff team.
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I just don't think you understand Optimists argue that the sport provides multicultural role models, who demonstrate to a conservative audience that people of foreign ancestry can contribute positively to their chosen country.
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There are a lot of people, technological optimists in particular, who acknowledge that workers will be displaced in this emergent economy, but seem convinced that those workers will be absorbed or re-employed.
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Bill Gates is guest editor of TIME's "The Optimists" issue, featuring a cover portrait of 5-year-old Ethiopian Mohamad Nasir, whom Gates had met in 2012, less than a month after birth.
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Here&aposs a closer look: ___ THE OPTIMISTS Very senior officials from the United States and South Korea have set the tone here, with a huge though indirect assist from Kim Jong Un himself.
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"This service document certainly paints a grim picture, but ever the optimists, we headed down to our friendly local Apple Store and bought a brand new 23 13" MacBook Pro Touch Bar unit.
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The optimists among them are expressing relief that Donald J. Trump said nothing during the campaign about dismantling the United Nations altogether — or turning its iconic tower facing the East River into condos.
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Economic growth since the 1970s has disappointed relative to what many optimists imagined in 1965; at the same time it has been stronger than what many Carter-era pessimists feared we could expect.
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On the whole, though, optimists tend to be happier people who are better able to bounce back from a serious loss and perhaps even parlay it into a vocational, emotional or financial gain.
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Realistic optimists, the author writes, believe they will succeed but also understand they have to strategize, put in effort, plan and be persistent in order to overcome any obstacles and get things done.
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Optimists see the fruits of reform in both episodes; pessimists fulminate that promises to protect taxpayers are broken after the Italian deal, and that hopes of moving towards a true banking union are dead.
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But fear not, stock optimists: The switch may well just be a reminder that as the market matures and economic growth accelerates, the correlation is no longer needed as an impetus to buy equities.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Brent crude oil options market is showing a definite split between the optimists and the pessimists this week, but it would seem the bulls are starting to gain the upper hand.
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But stories like that of La Flor de Copan, a cigar factory in west Honduras which saw 47 workers quit last year to join a "caravan" of northbound migrants, deflate even the arch-optimists.
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SPD optimists reckon voters are tired of her style of politics ("endlessly deliberating before reaching a solution to which she claims there is no alternative" says one) and are ready for a change. Hunger.
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Second, one of the major arguments of techno-optimists is that official measures of economic growth understate the real extent of progress, because they don't fully account for the benefits of truly new goods.
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The perennial optimists at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, have joined the rest of the world in deploying AI to help manage huge data sets — and their efforts almost instantly bore fruit.
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All this was, at least some optimists hope, an implicit reassurance to NATO's European partners that Mr Trump was not about to make a deal over their heads with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
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But overall, what market optimists are looking at is the earnings yield in relationship to this low interest rate environment and saying to themselves, 'I can get a better return within the stock market.
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Optimists point to the rude health of DAX stalwarts like SAP (software), Allianz (insurance), Munich Re (reinsurance), Siemens (engineering) or BASF (chemicals)—solid companies with sound balance-sheets busily preparing for the digital age.
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On an October day last year, a large crew had commandeered the manor to shoot an episode of ''The Optimists,'' a series I developed for Russia's Channel 2 about young Soviet diplomats in 1960.
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The hope of tech-industry optimists for what former AOL chief and Revolution LLC founder Steve Case calls "the rise of the rest" — the spread of tech into the heartland — has gotten more urgent.
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Trump's campaign was so unmoored from factual or ideological premises that it has been tempting for optimists to hope Trump used demagoguery as a campaign tactic he will no longer find useful as president.
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A looming Brexit may even speed up ratification of the Paris deal to keep warming to less than 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures; optimists hope proceedings can be wrapped up early next year.
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Pessimists outnumbered optimists in February for the first time since late 2014, according to the survey of business managers by the Ifo Institute in Munich, which is considered a reliable predictor of the growth.
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But his general pessimism about the world that lay in wait in the 21st century now looks remarkably prescient, at least next to the Pollyannaish forecasts of techno-optimists, democracy promoters and globalization enthusiasts.
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Some people, optimists in our view, believe that Mr. Trump's worst instincts can be controlled or at least moderated after the exit on Friday of one of the White House's darker forces, Stephen Bannon.
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Biden and the centrists of the contemporary political establishment are not the first generation of optimists to hope that the Republican Party might return from a period of shame to moderation and political respectability.
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But though optimists think clever and more dexterous machines will make most of their human colleagues more productive, rather than redundant, they hardly see a return to the 20th-century world of copious lifelong jobs.
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And despite the predictions of leftist optimists like Srnicek and Williams, and the gloomy warnings of more mainstream commentators like Stern, there's little reason to think these dynamics have changed in the early 21st century.
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What the techno-optimists would say is that the economy of the future is fundamentally different because we are entering an age in which we are inventing technologies that will actually further their own development.
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And despite the predictions of leftist optimists like Srnicek and Williams, and the gloomy warnings of more mainstream commentators like Stern, there's little reason to think these dynamics have changed in the early 8933st century.
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"The France of the optimists has won, and is dragging the other part of France toward its own side," said Claudia Senik, an economist who heads the Well-Being Observatory, an academic think tank here.
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The optimists' theory of the case What was the theory of the case for those who believed, or at least claimed to believe, that a cut in corporate taxes would be passed through into wages?
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For the better part of the year, an after-school program in New York City helped students build Optimists, or Optis, vessels a bit over seven feet long that are designed for small, light bodies.
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F*** It. Get a Divorce: A Guide for Divorce-curious Optimists (2019) by entrepreneur and divorced dad Steve Kane: a more practical guide for how best to separate when the marriage has irretrievably broken down.
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Over and over officials and optimists explain to me that negotiations policy is rational, unified, coordinated, managed by experts, that DPRK could never divide the government or the alliance, that the president effectively exerts leverage.
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Some daft optimists thought that maybe, just maybe, if we just believed in Brazil, the politicians would pull through on their promises that the games would lift the city up to a new level of prosperity.
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While both billionaires are self-avowed optimists and firmly preach the potential of a better future with robots doing more of our mundane or repetitive skills, both stress the importance of some form of wealth redistribution.
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Optimists would see China as the elephant: impossible to ignore but whose market is so tightly-controlled and largely shut off to foreigners that it shouldn't have such a major bearing on the global investment picture.
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Some have cited the lack of correlation as a sign of possible fudging in the country's economic statistics, while optimists have said that the figures may show how China is shifting away from energy-intensive manufacturing.
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Everything will work out fine in the long run, these optimists reckon, though the short term is likely to be bumpy, as it was during the Industrial Revolution, unless governments take action to smooth the transition.
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Optimists even speculate that he might emulate Ronald Reagan, by shaking up the diplomatic establishment, restoring America's military muscle and projecting such strength abroad that a frightened, overstretched North Korea will crumble like the Soviet Union.
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Optimists insist the flood of Asian money - around 20 Chinese lessors have opened Dublin offices since the start of the decade - confirms the emergence of air finance as a worthy asset class in its own right.
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The optimists on the Brexit side would counter that were Britain to be released from the shackles of EU bureaucracy it would suddenly find itself free to sign trade deals with other countries, such as China.
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"Citizen journalism" has gotten a lot of attention from techno-optimists in the last decade, but blogging, tweeting, podcasting and everything else haven't replaced traditional journalism so much as they have expanded its tone and range.
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One of those optimists, Mahmoud Sadeghi, a former cleric and son of a famous ayatollah, now wears a suit as a member of Parliament and takes to Twitter as he probes corruption among the ruling elite.
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"The trouble with the oil market right now, in Garner's view, is that the buyers all feel like eternal optimists and they won't let multiple failed rallies stand in the way of their conviction," Cramer said.
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North Korea's involvement in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics has come to an end, and for the optimists hoping that the last two weeks of friendliness and outreach would extend beyond the Games, the moment is here.
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The final episode in the first season examines a subject that seems to resonate with techno-optimists in Silicon Valley but also raises some big questions: Where do we draw the line between humans and machines?
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Optimists in the Bitcoin community are hoping that the Chinese ban on Bitcoin trading will be similarly temporary, but for now, it looks like Chinese citizens will be unable to get in on the Bitcoin speculation bonanza.
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Optimists point to continued growth in employment and real incomes, as well as the prospect of a trade deal between the United States and China, as reasons why the economy will accelerate again later in the year.
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Even if the optimists in the room are right, and we don't have to modify ourselves to live out healthy adult lives on Mars, a salient question remains when it comes to colonization: How will we reproduce?
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Maybe love in 2019 needs investigators on hand: The folks at the Federal Trade Commission warn that "romance scams" generated more reported losses than any other category of consumer fraud, costing online optimists $85033 million last year.
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Anti-Castro optimists might hope that, especially given Cuba's rapid loss of Latin American allies (including its economic lifeline, Venezuela), the pragmatic Raúl might make conciliatory moves or even concessions toward Trump, whose bluster now has consequences.
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Optimists will point to the ongoing failure of the populist right to rally a coalition of voters that can carry them over the 50 percent line, and their toxicity among women, financially secure voters, and ethnic minorities.
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The optimists among us might be hoping for a holiday miracle in which we'll awaken to discover that helpful Twitter elves came in the night and kicked all the white supremacists off the platform while we slept.
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The American people are, I believe, still optimists who will respond if we provide that roadmap, but they won't wait forever; Trump's populism provides, for many, an attractive safety blanket in the absence of a viable conservative alternative.
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Wharton is not generally viewed as one of literature's great optimists, and yet, by the last chapter of "The Age of Innocence," people are a little less hypocritical, a little more willing to see and accept the world.
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"The minutes were not as deterministic as market optimists had hoped when it comes to the consideration that appeared to anchor the Feds dramatic policy U-turn in January," said Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz.
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Some optimists still argue that Mr Xi believes the time is not yet ripe for bold economic change but that, once he has cleaned up the party, he will be able to turn his attention to economic reform.
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Some optimists think that Mr. Trump could lessen the harm of a decision on Jerusalem by making clear he will not prejudge the future of East Jerusalem or other core questions like the borders of a Palestinian state.
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In what optimists might regard as a sign of sincerity, a Pakistani court last month sentenced Hafiz Saeed — head of Lashkar-e-Taiba, which masterminded the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks — to five and a half years in prison.
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In what optimists might regard as a sign of sincerity, a Pakistani court last month sentenced Hafiz Saeed — head of Lashkar-e-Taiba, which masterminded the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks — to five and a half years in prison.
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There are plenty of stories of successful reskilling — optimists often cite a program in Kentucky that trained a small group of former coal miners to become computer programmers — but there is little evidence that it works at scale.
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So, as the year enters its final weeks, maybe it's no surprise that Wall Street's optimists looking to make a bullish case for 2019 are reaching back almost a quarter century for a similar setup that worked out well.
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The number of executives who were pessimistic in the first quarter compared to three months ago exceeded those who were optimistic by 6.5 percent, a reversal of the 13 percent lead held by the optimists in the previous period.
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Optimists, meanwhile, prefer to conjure up an age of limitless material abundance and infinite leisure, with genetically modified humans bound together by brain implants into a solar-system spanning hivemind, or perhaps uploading their minds into a silicon utopia.
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When optimists reassure the public not to fear the new age of robotization, they say that, as has always happened since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the economy will produce more than enough jobs to replace those destroyed.
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Others – the optimists, I suppose – continue to believe governments can work towards slowing climate change if they focus on investing in renewable energies and bringing down emissions levels, the sort of targets enshrined in conventions like the Paris Agreement.
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The stock market's liftoff out of an 18-month range to a new high in July—followed by the forceful post-election rally and related surge in investor, consumer and business confidence— have some optimists declaring another "Morning in America" moment.
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"Since optimists expect good things to happen in the future, when they realize that something is unrealistic, they identify the alternatives and feel okay with deviating from their original goal," explained Carsten Wrosch, PhD, a psychology professor at Concordia University.
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But the possibility that after this long winning streak humanity could be about to trip and fall is preoccupying Bill and Melinda Gates, a pair of self-described "impatient optimists" who run a foundation dedicated to solving the world's problems.
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No matter, say optimists: this is the beginning of a "period of reflection" that will culminate in a set of shiny new initiatives next March, when the EU will mark the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, its founding document.
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Oil prices slumped more than 4 percent, wiping out Wall Street's early gains, after the U.S. government reported that a drop in weekly crude stockpiles was close to analysts' forecasts but far less than the decline expected by market optimists.
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I encourage you to choose the third option: To be clear-eyed optimists; to see that building technology that supports equality, democracy, truth and kindness means looking around corners -- and throwing up every possible roadblock against hate, violence and deception.
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Among the optimists about the future of travel, David Scowsill, president and chief executive of the World Travel & Tourism Council, notes that one significant event this summer actually had something of a silver lining for fragrance and duty-free companies.
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Among the optimists was William Wehrum, the agency's chief air pollution officer, who is glad to have another chance to undermine the nation's clean air laws after failing to do so during his previous stint in the George W. Bush administration.
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Taking their cue from the Vietnam revisionists, Iraq war optimists argued that just as Americans thought we were losing in Vietnam when in fact we were winning, so too were we winning in Iraq despite apparent evidence to the contrary.
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SYDNEY, Jan 18 (Reuters) - A measure of Australia's consumer sentiment barely budged in January as pessimists continued to outnumber optimists even as people thought it was a good time to splash out on big-ticket items, a survey showed on Wednesday.
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Even if the optimists prove to be right that the epidemic will soon be contained, they are mistaken in thinking that China's economic slowdown over the past month will not have longer run effects on the Chinese and global economies.
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Smil questions whether our biosphere is capable of supporting even the growth that economists, data scientists, and techno-optimists regard as "sustainable," and argues that such experts fail to consider the "dynamic link" between nature and civilization in their calculations.
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Meanwhile, those who cast their vote for Clinton will have the unenviable but all-important responsibility that strivers and optimists must always bear: try and try again, and bring along anyone who is willing to put their shoulder to the wheel.
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In each case, the technology was predicted by a small number of optimists amongst a very large, vocal set of genuinely accomplished experts who were confident that a particular dramatic technological advance would never be achieved (at least not on a practical timescale).
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"It is a company where there is no middle ground, with the optimists believing that there is no limit to its potential and the pessimists convinced that it is a time bomb, destined to implode," he wrote in a recent blog post.
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Then again, this dream-like, understated aura is a hallmark of the Desperate Optimists' work: notably their debut feature film, "Helen" (2009), in which a teenage girl gradually assumes the identity of a murder victim after playing her in a police reconstruction.
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Some optimists argue that we have not yet seen the real Mr Xi—that the congress will help him consolidate his power, and after that he will begin social and economic reforms in earnest, building on his relative success in curbing corruption.
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Money paid by Apple and other American firms to European governments will not go into tax coffers back home; the realisation that European politicians might gain at their expense could, optimists say, at last spur American policymakers to reform their barmy tax code.
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On the other hand, Stephanie Pomboy, founder of MacroMavens, an independent economics consulting firm, thinks the optimists on Wall Street are in for another round of disappointment, with the economy once again failing to deliver a much-promised, but so far elusive, acceleration.
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While I consider myself one of the cautious optimists, the fact is that the way our current health system is designed — and, especially, how we pay for it — digital health innovations could very well stretch the widening gulf between patients and their doctors.
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Some optimists see the potential for an eventual deal between Mr. Trump and Democrats that includes money for his wall in exchange for permanent revisions to immigration laws protecting many of those who have lived in the country illegally for many years.
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In his 2010 book The Uses of Pessimism, English conservative philosopher Roger Scruton inveighs against the "unscrupulous optimists" of the left who think that with enough data and will, something like a heaven on earth can be imposed from above by clever technocrats.
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The optimists, though, have to reckon with the fact that everyone is working longer hours, notwithstanding increased wealth and technological convenience, and the presumably related fact that parents everywhere seem harassed and exhausted, while marriage and childbearing both are falling out of fashion.
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The optimists are quick to point out that, after taking a modest 235% tumble in 2000 — marking the first downturn since the end of the Great Recession — the U.S. market defied expectations of another dip last year, posting a modest increase to 272 million vehicles.
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Cam Newton (CAR at Falcons) — It has been a rough start for Newton, the consensus No. 249 fantasy quarterback heading into the season, but optimists can point to his facing two of the better defenses against the pass in the Broncos and the Vikings.
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Max and I have really great fans that are just like us; they identify with how we are because we're all like-minded and I think Max and I are both huge optimists and are also aware of the complex reality of the world.
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A few optimists are holding out hope that the United States and Europe will pursue a stripped-down version of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, better known as TTIP, a far-reaching deal begun under the Obama administration and abandoned by Mr. Trump.
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"Think of food stocks and livestock and anything that's coming across borders being delayed (that) would be a real problem so I'm in the camp of optimists who think we'll find a way through," he told CNBC's Julianna Tatelbaum at the firm's headquarters just outside London.
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The Victorian techno-optimists who first envisioned the digital landscape we now inhabit imagined that thinking machines would be a force for harmony, rather than evil, capable of creating beautiful music and finding expressions for "fundamental relations" of any kind according to a strictly mathematical calculus.
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Optimists can also point out that cronyism has stimulated a counter-reaction from a growing middle class in the emerging world, from Brazilians banging pots and pans in the street to protest against graft to Indians electing Arvind Kejriwal, a maverick anti-corruption campaigner, to run Delhi.
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So who is right: the pessimists (many of them techie types), who say this time is different and machines really will take all the jobs, or the optimists (mostly economists and historians), who insist that in the end technology always creates more jobs than it destroys?
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Some developments in male toys may stem from the overall growth of the $15 billion per year sex toy market, which optimists think could increase to $50 billion by 2020—symbolic of a continued march of increasing acceptance of wider views and experiences of sexual pleasure.
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The 67,603-square-foot space houses a multifarious amalgam of works by self-taught artists, both obscure and well known, and colorful signage with relevant quotes seeks to document America's history "as a mecca for forward-looking innovators, optimists, dreamers and doers," according to museum officials.
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Delle Donne has been everything the optimists projected dating back to high school: a 6-foot-5 guard with the strength and shot-blocking of a post player, impossible to stop once she gets going downhill, and the best isolation player in the league by far.
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Still, "The Last Jedi" honors the franchise's chief values of idealism, loyalty and self-sacrifice that made the original "Star Wars" so beloved, with a similarly appealing ragtag team of hotheads and cockeyed optimists to root for as they try to save their galaxy from totalitarian domination.
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Fear not, say the optimists: Mr Netanyahu was just throwing out sweets to win over right-wing voters; he knows full well that annexation of the occupied territories would breach international law, cause an outcry in Europe and alienate Arab states that have been moving closer to Israel.
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With a great receiver like Watkins who's missed eight weeks, that's the wisest policy: grab him, don't listen to what any of the optimists or pessimists in the media echo chamber say, leave him on your bench for a game, and recalibrate after he runs around out there.
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Optimists on Labour's centrist wing see in Mr Smith further similarities to Mr Kinnock, who took over from the unelectably left-wing Michael Foot, fought both Trots and Margaret Thatcher and bequeathed to Tony Blair, his successor-but-one, something that could be moulded into a party of government.
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The problem, the optimists argued, was that — just as during the Vietnam War — naysaying pundits and politicians were not merely undermining popular support for the war, but giving our enemies hope that they could win by waiting for the American people to lose their will to continue the fight.
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Depending on whom you ask, it was either the apex, the inflection point, or the beginning of the end for Silicon Valley's startup scene—what cynics called a bubble, optimists called the future, and my future coworkers, high on the fumes of world-historical potential, breathlessly called the ecosystem.
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The president, optimists could argue, has distinguished his approach from Barack Obama's in three ways that should strengthen his hand in the Middle East: He reached out to traditional allies of the United States, cultivating the presidents of Turkey and Egypt and announcing visits to Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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Deadwood, built on land stolen from the Lakota Sioux, had attracted exiles, fugitives, optimists, gamblers with nothing to lose, bloody-minded opportunists, cynics, and seekers who had come to try their luck, or to escape bad luck, in terrain that lay largely beyond the reach of the law.
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Since Mr Trump came to power, optimists have suggested that his boldest America First moves, such as withdrawing from the Paris climate-change accords, or abandoning the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact with 11 Asia-Pacific nations, might prompt other powers to unite and promote global goods without him.
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Tech optimists posit that the wave of exponential growth in smart tech, artificial intelligence, machines and the interconnectedness of all aspects of modern life through technology will bring profound changes to society, and creates an unprecedented shift from the way we are familiar with — how we behave, interact and think.
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Depending on whom you ask, 2012 represented the apex, the inflection point, or the beginning of the end for Silicon Valley 's startup scene—what cynics called a bubble, optimists called the future, and my future co-workers, high on the fumes of world-historical potential, breathlessly called the ecosystem.
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The heads of America's largest banks have been some of the country's most prominent optimists over the past two years, shooing away questions about the potential effects of President Trump's trade policies, cheering his tax cuts and offering periodic reassurances that things would all work out for the American economy.
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For the second question in particular, there are some interesting findings: Optimists: Nigeria (72%), Chile (69%), Ghana (63%), Philippines (61%), Brazil (56%) Pessimists: France (9%), Japan (19%), Greece (21%), Australia, Canada, U.K (24%) The U.S. perspective: 58% say things are currently good, 37% say things will be better for the next generation.
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Even as some readings show a wide gap between the bulls and bears — the biggest gap between market optimists and pessimists since Black Monday — the bullish mood is most pronounced among older million-dollar investors, who have been around for more than a few ups and downs in Dows and portfolio values.
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This is a different outcome than that envisioned by generations of optimists who painted the web as a tool we could use to find our "real" tribes—the people who share our interests and enthusiasms, as opposed to the people who just happened to live in our neighborhoods or be part of our families.
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"While these are Metro Phoenix-specific partnerships today, these businesses are national and what we learn from these programs will give us a network of partners when we launch in new cities down the road," Waymo said, giving optimists hope that the company will one day further expand the program in a meaningful way.
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And while some analysts argue that that the pattern identified by Moore has broken down because of physical limitations on how many transistors can fit on a chip, decades of exponential progress is extraordinary, even if the trend doesn't continue — and optimists in the industry argue that computing power can continue to grow exponentially.
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But a survey by the Institute of Directors found a remarkable negative swing of 34 percentage points in business confidence in the wake of the election result (pessimists outnumber optimists by 37 points) while the head of the Confederation of British Industry said there was a risk that business could cut back on investment.
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A dwindling band of optimists pin their hopes on a crucial party congress late next year, at which Mr Xi will preside over sweeping leadership changes and set out the party's goals for the remaining five years of his rule (assuming he accepts the norm of a ten-year limit on the general-secretaryship).
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If 2017's transfer fee announced Neymar to the masses and made him a famous figure beyond the sporting world, 2018 is set up as the year that the Brazilian finally bookmarks an era where the sport has globalized and expanded in a way even the optimists of 20183 years ago could not have imagined.
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But liberal optimists were wrong as well — wrong to expect that the new order would bring about a clear increase in sexual fulfillment, wrong to anticipate a healthy integration of sexual desire and romantic attachment, wrong to assume that a happily egalitarian relationship between the sexes awaited once puritanism was rejected and repression cast aside.
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Millennials, who once gave support to Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE, stayed with the Democratic Party as the only optimists in a raging sea of resentment.
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The 6.0 percent year to date decline in the Standard & Poor's 210 index, prompted by worries about Chinese economic weakness, a decline in oil prices, and a generalized fear of the selling feeding on itself, has put optimists in the position of having to predict really outsized returns from now just to show modest returns for 221.
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The Republican and Democratic conventions have been a study in contrasts: A parade of C-list celebrities, aggrieved whites, and Donald Trump offspring stirring up race panic in Cleveland, versus an inclusive array of optimists, and a dream-team of surrogates in Philadelphia, all of whom will barnstorm the country for Hillary Clinton in the fall.
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After all, the techno-optimists completely missed the signs of an impending revolution in their backyards: the spread of fake news enabled by social networks; the megaphonic power of Trump's Twitter feed; the rise of the so-called alt-right, a racist, neo-fascist clique that festered on 4chan and Reddit before emerging as a viable political movement.
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Surely, there can't be a recession around the corner, optimists counter: The economy is still benefiting from last year's sharp increase in government spending (not from the tax cuts, which have demonstrably failed their stated goal of boosting investment) and the Federal Reserve is now on a permanent pause and even potentially considering cutting interest rates again after two years of hikes.
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As the data from myriad national surveys had begun to reveal, the totalitarian mind-set was far more deeply ingrained than the optimists had assumed: This was Gudkov's depressing and, he had to admit, radical idea: The last century could be viewed as a continuity, with periodic bumps of "aborted modernization," and the society he had been studying his entire adult life had stayed essentially the same.
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Optimists are looking to his infrastructure spending plans and his willingness to listen to Al GoreAlbert (Al) Arnold Gore2020 Democrats release joint statement ahead of Trump's New Hampshire rally Deregulated energy markets made Texas a clean energy giant Gun safety is actually a consensus issue MORE and Elon Musk as reasons to hold out hope that a Trump administration won't entirely unravel decades of progress.
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In the meantime, the initial success of those revolutions (which would be quickly and brutally reversed in Egypt, and just barely sustained in Tunisia to this day) allowed techno-optimists to ignore all the other factors that played more decisive roles—chiefly decades of organization among activists preparing for such an opportunity, along with some particular economic and political mistakes that weakened the regimes.
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Not only have I blindly managed to write Russia's most popular feature film and one of its most-talked-about TV series of the year, but I managed to do it in 2015, when relations between the United States and Russia were at their coldest point since the events depicted in ''The Optimists'' (which deals with the aftermath of the Francis Gary Powers spy flight in 1960 and the Berlin Crisis).
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Tech optimists think the notion of a Silicon Valley-designed box, which could theoretically place channels like CBS and ABC side by side with YouTube and other digital video services, would revolutionize TV. But the FCC rules won't have any impact on the structure of the TV business, where pay TV providers and pay TV networks bundle together big packages of TV channels and require consumers to pay for all of them.
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