Billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in a jocular mood this morning when he visited Dartmouth College in rural Hanover, New Hampshire.

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Caldwell was also in good mood after his morning round and lauding the condition of the links.

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By the morning of the event, the mood at Amway headquarters was electric.

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Now, although relief for the president is felt, the general mood is closer to the morning after a stockmarket crash.

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The footage of the IDF's celebrated naval commandos falling prey to an Islamic lynch mob on the deck of the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara on Monday morning serves as a perfect simile for the national mood.

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However, they were in jubilant mood after the victory announcement early on Friday morning.

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The market place is seeing short covering and bargain-hunting buying interest in many markets Monday morning, as traders and investors are in a better mood, at least for the moment.

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There is a story that Mr Regan would arrive in the Oval Office each morning with a fresh joke to get the president in the mood to face the toils of stardom.

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We all waited in terror to hear him repeat to the convention his malicious vilification of the Jews, but that he didn't made no difference to the mood that carried every last family on the block out into the street at nearly five in the morning.

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