Now, though, he said, he is growing optimistic.
The reason was not that Vann's after-action reports grew optimistic.
After Rice received 72.2percentt in the voting last year, he grew optimistic.
Michael Keithley, chief information officer for talent management company Creative Artists Agency, grew optimistic after his team's testing.
That said, here's what the study of 800 Americans aged 51 to 67 found: Boomers' confidence in their retirement plans continues to decline, but they're growing optimistic about their financial future.
The U.S. military, however, had grown more optimistic following the Tet Offensive.
Mr Charlton says he has grown more optimistic that a deal can be agreed this year.
For its part, the office furniture industry has also grown more optimistic, mostly because small- and medium-size companies appear to have begun spending on office furniture again.
He has also grown more optimistic about the health of monoline insurers, firms that insure bonds, because the major players had shored up their financial positions.
But they have grown more optimistic than Warren E. Buffett, long regarded as the king of value investors, who told his Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in March, when prices were far lower, that he saw few stocks "that even mildly interest us".
