Word: upbeat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...done portraits of six previous Presidents for TIME, took the cover shot of George W. Bush at the Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 4, minutes after he got word of the U.S. Supreme Court's first decision in his favor. That put Bush in an upbeat mood, and Coupon found him to be a relaxed and cooperative subject, especially contrasted with some past ones. "Clinton wanted to appear a certain way and had strong ideas about how he wanted to look," says Coupon. "Bush gave the impression that he was more in a position...
Last week Bush's aides felt upbeat, though not quite cocky, about Friday's high-court arguments. "Ted Olson himself urged us not to try to read into the mood of the Justices," says Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett. But even if they lose with the high court, the Bushies believe they're doing very well indeed in the Florida courts. The end of last week brought strong evidence for that proposition. On Friday the Florida Supreme Court refused to order both immediate hand counts of disputed ballots and the revote in Palm Beach County sought by voters confused...
...left the hospital Friday, Cheney told reporters he would return this week to "a fairly normal schedule." He was going home with an upbeat prognosis from his doctors, so there's little reason to suppose that poor health would cause him to step aside before Dec. 18, when the Electoral College will formally choose the President and Vice President. If that were to happen, however, and if Bush turns out to be the winner of the presidential race, he could simply name Cheney's replacement, a choice that would have to be approved in a vote by the 165-member...
Gore, who can often be moody and stressed, has been eerily confident amid the pressure, "ridiculously upbeat," as an aide puts it. "He thinks he's gonna win. He has very little doubt." Instead of doing what he normally does in meetings--sucking the oxygen out of the room--Gore has been energizing the conference calls and emergency strategy sessions. When an adviser says, "Gore has been really great," he sounds almost surprised...
...Boies will be keeping the public behind the Democrats. Jonathan Schiller, his longtime colleague and partner for the past three years, says Boies has no doubt devised a strategy that anticipates appeals and parallel legal proceedings while recognizing the psychology of the situation. "People need to leave feeling upbeat about the transition," says Schiller...