Word: euphoria
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...shares in other merger-hungry firms like Rakuten, Softbank and Yahoo! Japan are still down between 9% and 15%, even though nobody has suggested they did anything illegal. But with the broader Nikkei 225 stock index almost fully recovered from the scandal, there's a sense that the speculative euphoria in Japan is still alive and frothing. After the previous decade of disappointing financial returns in Japan, no one-not the bankers, the investors or even the regulators-has much inclination to believe that Livedoor is anything but an isolated case, or much motivation to launch wider investigations...
...Alito wanted a bigger job, but he had a problem. The 35-year-old graduate of Princeton and Yale was working at the Justice Department in 1985 at the height of conservative euphoria over the re-election of Ronald Reagan. But he was not part of what was known as the "secret handshake" crowd?the Administration's tight-knit cadre of Reaganite true believers. He had been one of the young lawyers from élite schools hired without regard to their political leanings by the Solicitor General's office. The Reaganauts suspected many of the career lawyers were liberals hoping...
...rescued was nothing more than a heartbreaking rumor. Only one man made it out alive. Someone had misunderstood a conversation and believed the miners had survived and the false report had spread in a nearby Baptist church were family and friends had gathered. In an instant, a scene of euphoria turned to shock, sadness and anger. Family members moaned, clutching their foreheads and stomachs. One man jumped in his pickup truck, drove through the mud and gravel and nearly rammed a news reporter and sheriff?s cruiser, before throwing the truck in reverse and roaring off. "Oh, I am angry...
...Appalachian community hard. Most everyone here knows a miner or works in the mines himself, and hundreds of residents came out to support the families and friends of the trapped men. West Virginia?s governor, Joe Manchin, was on the scene but he too seemed caught up in the euphoria of the false report. ?Miracles do happen,? he said, before learning the truth...
...backyard all the time." But Gunther and other neighbors say they were not aware of Alpizar's mental disorder, which does not surprise some mental-health experts. About 2.3 million Americans have bipolar disorder, a condition in which a person's mood can swing from depression to euphoria. But "there is still a stigma about saying 'I have a mental illness,'" says William Pollack, a psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., who has consulted for the Secret Service...