A new, gentler voice gave me ChoicePoint's upbeat spin.

When the two met last Tuesday in Brunei the rhetoric was diplomatically polite and the spin resolutely upbeat.

The upbeat spin: The current hours are relics of Wall Street's white-shoe era; the global economy obeys no clock, and neither should the trading floor.

Although most of the words the playwright has put into his mouth are rancorous, profane and meanspirited, Mr. Cariou gives them a surprisingly upbeat spin.

The upbeat spin: Russia has agreed with our conditions.

Robert F. Daniell tried to put an upbeat spin on the announcement last week.

The upbeat spin: Nagano's bid was more honest than Salt Lake City's.

Her Republican candidate is in favor of this but suggests calling it "The Friendship Ditch," to give it the proper upbeat spin.

Debbie Gravitte gives a bright, upbeat spin to the role of Luce, a wife who likes to put her husband to work (in bed).

It is a disaster story with the kind of upbeat spin that television traditionally cherishes.