(Or, as Mr. Stewart and lots of optimistic executives would probably put it, "forever young" assets).
Now, after nearly a year of online tailoring, Lands' End has released results that exceed the expectations of even the most optimistic executives.
[C3.] An Online Success for Lands End Effortss by Lands' End to sell custom-made pants on its Web site have exceeded the expectations of even the most optimistic executives.
Rival Studios: Optimistic executives at News Corp. and Sony can choose to interpret the deal as validation for their own moves into computer-generated animation, which they have embraced since Pixar's initial success.
"Tightening of capital markets is good news for all the folks trying to build lasting companies, as opposed to the subset that are trying to build flash-in-the-pan stocks," said Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon's endlessly optimistic chief executive.
Given how good "Arrow" has gotten over the course of its two seasons, I'm optimistic that executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg will be able to get "The Flash" up to speed quickly (sorry, but it's not possible to write a Barry Allen story without employing a few puns).
Even generally optimistic financial executives like Alan H. Fishman, the chairman of Meridian Capital, a mortgage broker, said they were unsure how long it would take the city to absorb the latest blow.
Optimistic industry executives figure that combined sales of Xbox, GameCube and Sony's PlayStation 2 (which has already sold 20 million copies since its release in early 2000) will by the end of 2005 reach as many as 150 million units, roughly the number of VCRs and DVD players in active use.
"There was every reason to be optimistic," said Marty Brochstein, executive editor of The Licensing Letter, a trade publication for the licensing industry.
Ma Bell was optimistic and Chief Executive Randall Stephenson Randall Stephenson said "our fundamental outlook for the business continues to be quite positive".
It gives us cause to be optimistic," said Joshua Schuler, executive director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, a Massachusetts Institution of Technology-based group that administered the survey for the 16th year.
