In turn, particularly thanks to their resilience, they were also more likely to have brighter expectations.
Consumer confidence also improved, thanks mainly to brighter expectations about the economic situation over the next 12 months.
So, if Sam stands among these leading lights, we should have the brightest expectations for his memoirs.
And because analysts were bullish, the outlook was bright: "Such expectations, should they persist, bode well for continued strength in capital accumulation…." Note to Spitzer: You don't have to be an analyst to seduce the market or to be seduced by it.
"This is New York, for God's sake -- back home this is the dream place," said Mrs. Messina, who came here from her native Brazil 13 years ago bright with expectations of earning enough in three months to return home and open her own beauty parlor.
VINICIUS and Lorena Fortuna, a 20-something couple from Brazil, arrived in New York in 2006 with the brightest of expectations, professionally and personally.
Dwyer says although brighter earnings expectations would heighten optimism, things won't improve until the Federal Reserve makes further rate cuts.
They are confident that the future will be bright, and these expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies because they help motivate lucky people to try even when the odds are against them.
He moved in a bright nimbus of expectation; but he had arrived so recently on the national stage that the idea of a President Obama seemed almost impertinent.
By the time he announced his candidacy earlier this year, Obama was already a media phenomenon thanks to his star turn at the 2004 Democratic convention and the publication of his second book, "The Audacity of Hope". He moved in a bright nimbus of expectation; but he had arrived so recently on the national stage that the idea of a President Obama seemed almost impertinent.
