"What you put on first thing in the morning really can have a positive impact on your day, and we thought about all that hope and optimism of starting a job," said Scott Greene, senior vice president for brand management at Fruit of the Loom in Bowling Green, Ky., a unit of Berkshire Hathaway.
As a result, abstract "play sculptures" started appearing, representing the optimism of a new leisure society, particularly in the US.
"The optimism of 2013 has gone".
Happiness: Ah, the optimism of clueless happiness.
Despite the optimism of IHD leaders, Kerr's misgivings increased.
Global data, including lower-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures, have dented the optimism at the start of the year that the world economy was picking up.
There has been a marked turnaround from the optimism at the start of the year, when Georgia, Moldova, Armenia and Ukraine were expected to sign historic agreements in Lithuania on 28/29 November, which would open up trade and be the first step to eventual EU membership bids.
This sense of optimism is starting to percolate far beyond the senior team.
Despite Friday's gains, three punishing weeks have blotted much of the optimism that greeted the start of 2009.
