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Mindful that a natural tendency to interpret the Kremlin auguries overoptimistically often influences U.S. policies.

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So does Boeing, which said, perhaps overoptimistically, that it could produce a 500-m.p.h. transport within 18 months of receiving a contract.

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Behind this modest claim lies what some observers have heralded, perhaps overoptimistically, as a third revolution in mental health.

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Added another aide, perhaps overoptimistically: "I really think that this is the precipitating event that will cause the pendulum to swing the other way."

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McGovern's aides comforted themselves, perhaps overoptimistically, with the thought that they had set the "radical issue" to rest in the same way that John Kennedy overcame the Catholicism issue in West Virginia's primary in 1960.

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