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...Kamen, like many great inventors, is an inveterate optimist. "We don't need 50% market penetration," he points out. "The niche market for us is anybody with a set of feet. There are 6 billion of them out there. If 1%-or take 0.1%-of them get Segways, that's still 6 million people...
...Much depends on the temper and commitment of the President himself. "He can juggle all the balls and still let his hair down," says Charlie Younger, an orthopedic surgeon from Midland, Texas, and longtime friend, who spent three nights at the White House this month. "He's an eternal optimist...
...nice on my CUE guides. I don’t know if it’s the eternal optimist in me saying that the class could have always been worse, but I never skewer the bad classes I take, or at least not in quite the way I intend to before faced with bubbles to fill.Looking at the nine-page “Senior Survey,” a CUE guide for the entire Harvard experience, I promised myself I would be more objective. I would complain about all the minor annoyances and real aggravations that marred my time...
...monarch who said in 1955 (following the government's decision) that her sister, Margaret, could not remain a royal princess if she married a divorced man has had no qualms about her grandson William living with his girlfriend. A senior aide says she is fundamentally an optimist, "a glass-half-full" kind of person, who would endeavor to do a good job even if she did not like the country Britain had become - but "she is very comfortable with modern Britain." One thing she definitely dislikes: people who come to see her when they have colds. She does not want...
...However, being more of a realist than an optimist, I could never have anticipated staying in Extendo for only three days. Upon meeting up with my new team in Hickory, N.C. this weekend for the first time, one of my veteran teammates proclaimed my magic act “the shortest stay” he had “ever heard...