Ordinary Turks might have regained confidence in the stockmarket had fleeing individual investors been replaced by solid institutional buyers.

ECONOMIST: Turkish shares

He also still has the pace and athletic ability that made him a junior sprint and high jump champion on the Cote d'Azur and now, after two years playing regularly in France, he has regained his confidence too.

BBC: How Bellion bounced back

The woman who received the first-ever near-total face transplant in the United States told her doctor she has regained her self-confidence, said Dr. Maria Siemionow, head of plastic surgery research at the Cleveland Clinic and leader of the transplant team.

CNN: The story

"There was a lot of confidence to be regained on the part of the travel community, whom we had disappointed repeatedly, " says current general manager Diderik Van Regemorter, sounding a bit like an exasperated dad himself.

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