Last week it cut its growth forecast for 2011 from 2.5% to 2%, a figure many analysts still find optimistic.
Cynics mutter that this is just a variant of jam tomorrow, but for the moment no one really knows.Second, it is reassuringly easy to find optimistic Indian businessmen outside the BJP's charmed circle.
This blog took some stick last season when it was suggested that Bradford would miss out on the play-offs but it is harder to find optimistic Bantam fans now.
BACK in the days of the first I.B.M. PC's or the Apple II, it was easy to find optimistic educators who dreamed of a golden age of learning in which smart interactive technologies would deliver top-rate instruction to schoolchildren.
The latest reading found 60percentt optimistic, down from 78percentt last week.
Here, perhaps, would be found an optimistic new politics that would stand in bright contrast to the wearying games being played out in London.
In a classic study in the 1980s, for example, Seligman followed insurance salespeople at Metropolitan Life and found that optimistic salespeople outsold their pessimistic counterparts by 37%.
In the US, the study found some optimistic conclusions: 60% of top corporations have at least two women on their executive committees, and eight corporations – including IBM, Pepsi Corporation and General Motors – have women CEOs.
The preliminary findings for the month, based on 350 telephone interviews -- 100 of them last week, while stocks plunged -- found Americans optimistic that the economy, and the market, would rebound in 2002, but increasingly pessimistic about the present.
The Marlins' owner, Jeffrey Loria, who has never even hinted that he will move the club if financing cannot be found, remains optimistic that enough money will be in place by May 1, the Marlins' deadline to begin a project to build a stadium for the 2007 season.
