Ratner — a development partner of The New York Times in building its current headquarters — once doubted that the arena would be built when the economy collapsed, but regained optimism once the Yankees gained financing for their new stadium.
The audition process ended up being less about being on "The Bachelor "and more about regaining optimism about finding love.
Where better to regain some optimism about modern markets than at an art fair?
It will take much more growth, and much lower unemployment, to persuade investors that they should regain the optimism that seemed perfectly reasonable only a few years back.
Better than expected consumer confidence figures from the US helped investors regain their optimism when it seemed it may have been flagging.
I can pinpoint the moment that I realised quite how awful it had all been, and began to regain the optimism and joie de vivre that I hadn't even realised I had lost.
Fassel caught the clipboard and regained his optimism.
"I think people are disenchanted enough," he added, regaining some optimism as he spoke.
Franklin spent time on the phone with her mother too, as part of an attempt to reset and regain her relentless optimism.
But he quickly regained his optimism--he argued that once there's a final, written-down bill, "you have a bigger target, not a smaller target," and he moved to an assessment of next year's elections: "They've already given us enough votes to lose twenty to forty House seats," he told me.
When Alex Corbisiero, Tom Croft, Dan Cole, Marland Yarde and Christian Wade all regain full fitness, such optimism is hardly going to diminish.
