Concentrating debt auctions on fewer, pre-announced dates risks them falling on days when the markets are in a bad mood.

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No wonder they're in a bad mood all the time.

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Margaret Thatcher was reportedly not pleased by Cameron's efforts to indulge the current anti-American mood in the U.K. Too bad today's leader of her party thinks focus groups and political surveys are substitutes for the principles of Thatcher, Reagan and Churchill in defending freedom.

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On the occasion where Miller was in a bad mood, he would slowly sip a neat Old Grand Dad.

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If I have posted to the world that I am in a bad mood, you might try to cheer me up, or at least think twice about bothering me.

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It is fair to point out that there were no fireworks over the Bosporus, either: after all the bad-tempered haggling, Turks were not in a mood to rejoice.

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Graniss reminds us that our emotions can get the best of us not only when we are in a bad mood but also when we are in a good mood.

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In a rare misjudgment of the public mood, Lula laughingly lamented his bad luck to be leaving just before the largesse arrived.

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No prizes for guessing why: with all the bad debt on bank and company balance sheets, few are in any mood for major credit expansion.

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