And they are so optimistic as they describe the small triumphs that, thanks to the drugs their money is buying, are now studding the bleak landscape of AIDS in the developing world.
Jim Dolan, then a Cablevision vice president, was in charge of the Triplecast, and he was so optimistic that he predicted as many as 11 million total purchases for the $29.95 and $125 options.
We did not find investigators to be so optimistic about eCRF capacities, particularly with respect to data entry and workload.
However, media reports of the time weren't so optimistic stating that, as neither the Spice Girls nor Take That had survived once they lost a member of their group, it would be difficult for S Club to remain together in an industry which has a "horrible habit of leaving bands in tatters once the first member has left".
The maths becomes very complicated when it spirals into these hypothecations, but the tendency is to make an optimistic prediction, so as to justify making an attractively high offer to the perennially cash-strapped Department of Transport.
"Fortunately, the film ends on an optimistic note, so as to give people hope and inspire them to action," David later reflected at the post-screening cocktail party.
At the beginning of the year, executives were so optimistic that bankers shopped the studio to possible buyers, hoping it could fetch as much as $7 billion.
The senior wide receiver Chris Potter is similarly optimistic, going so far as to say, "We definitely don't think we've lost a step".
Miramax, which had invested $8 million on the $24 million project, was so optimistic about the film as a prime contender in this year's Oscar race that it had planned to open it on 600 screens nationwide, the studio said.
