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optimism
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With regard to that overoptimism, Fukuyama writes, "If there is a single overarching theme to the domestic social policy critiques carried out by those who wrote for the Public Interest, it is the limits of social engineering.
Crothers and Paine[27] stressed the importance of communicating openly and honestly with parents about their primary concern and emphasized that overoptimism is dangerous and that unjustified pessimism is worse.
We then cut back those projections by 10 percent to wring out overoptimism, and proposed to reduce costs and capacity accordingly.
 
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