Many Turks who are campaigning for a more open political system hope that he will win, and they remained optimistic after the vote today.

"I am not terribly optimistic after yesterday that we can get a charge together by agreement," he said Saturday.

Vietnamese officials were more optimistic after the talks than they were Saturday.

"We were more optimistic" right after the war, he said.

Still, the Palestinians were cautiously optimistic after the first few meetings.

Still, in a city with so many now expecting the worst, he remained optimistic after last night's game.

Governor Goldschmidt was optimistic after the meeting, saying he never expected any sort of agreement, let alone one that could solve the current timber crisis.

The travel industry appears optimistic about life after 1997.

But there are reasons to be optimistic after these first two games.

But the Mayor was nevertheless optimistic after the meeting.