The claims have not been low enough to merit cheering, but the direction has been generally positive, and that's the first step.

We believe earnings momentum should turn strongly positive by the second quarter, but earnings gains in 2002 are unlikely to come close to reversing the collapse in 2001.

We're waiting for the direction from Microsoft. Without it, it's hard to know how to build your next products.

We are actually grateful with the results, and the positive movement in our direction. We feel we're in a very good place three years before an election.

Every indication in our poll is either unchanged or positive in Bush's direction.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman