First produce a budget resolution for now until 2002 with enough spending slowdowns and rosy projections to show a surplus.

Their rosy projections about long-term job gains have been much less certain.

His own pusillanimous budget, which makes not even the easy choices, helplessly projects another trillion in debt - and that assumes his rosy economic projections come true.

But lawmakers shrouded the costs with rosy projections.

One economist was forced out after he refused to endorse rosy projections for China's economy, according to two former executives.

But if that rosy projection proves wrong over the long term, the city will have to make up the difference.

"They're giving a very rosy projection, no matter how you cut it," said Edward J. Kane, a professor of finance at Boston College.

However, they pinpoint threats that could stymie these rosy projections.

But he tried to draw a contrast by suggesting that Mr. Bush relied on rosy, and perhaps unrealistic, projections of surpluses.

Others said that elements of the statement were based on unrealistically rosy projections.