Critics of the poultry industry were unusually optimistic about Preempt, because it is one of the few tools at the farm level that reduces disease-causing bacteria.

Jantiff arrived home in an unusually optimistic mood.

Stottlemyre was unusually optimistic about Contreras, saying that "a light went on" for him during their bullpen session Wednesday.

A1 Money for the new teachers' contract would be raised mostly from a pension change based on earnings projections that are unusually optimistic, experts said.

But he was feeling unusually optimistic because of the rusting piece of iron in his pocket.

Although he raised doubts about the effectiveness of drug education, Mr. Bennett was unusually optimistic about prospects for progress in fighting drugs.

"Beatrice" may be unusually optimistic in tone for Berlioz.

But other analysts argued that First Bank was using unusually optimistic forecasts of the potential for cost-cutting and profit growth.

His most recent previous testimony, in July, was unusually optimistic.

Together these works leave Mr. Kiefer poised on the brink of a new adventure, and give his exhibition an unusually optimistic, open-ended conclusion.