The ever-so-slight optimism arose after the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, acting on a telephone call last week from Mr. Clinton to restore calm, publicly urged his people to stop shooting Israelis from areas on the West Bank and in Gaza that the Palestinians totally control.
Although Muay Thai fighters, on average, exhibit slight comparative optimism, the majority of fighters believe that their own ability to negotiate risk is similar to the ability of their peers.
Moreover, these athletes also exhibit a slight degree comparative optimism or unrealistic optimism.
I've been fooled by too many false dawns to allow myself to get excited but during this foul winter there have been one or two signs of improvement and I have to confess to a slight stirring of optimism.
But as the show's second season opens in 1901, a slight air of optimism has set in.
Still, even with such a bleak outlook towards the situation from inside his own country, Pavlensky offers a slight hint of optimism towards the predominantly bleak situation for expression in Russia.
Not one member of Congress I spoke to has expressed even the slightest bit of optimism.
Clinton administration officials have sounded notes of guarded optimism and then slight pessimism in the last two weeks as they have concentrated on pushing the Israelis and the Palestinians close enough on the issues to merit a summit meeting for a peace agreement.
In the federal legislative branch we find a slight bit of momentum backed by optimism for real change in the next five years.
Participants reported slight increases in happiness, mood and optimism and had subtle decreases in stress, consistent with LY research in the other populations [ 24].
