However, sources within the Order told the BBC before Wednesday's meeting that there had been a "mood swing" among some of the membership.

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When business owners are in the midst of a positive social mood swing, they are more apt to take on more debt to grow their businesses.

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Mr Pozgalev, a former governor of Vologda, an ethnic Russian region that includes Cherepovets, identified the mood swing while campaigning for United Russia in last year's elections.

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Helped by his soft approach and by a swing in Greece's public mood from hostility to sympathy after two terrible earthquakes in Turkey (and another in Greece), the two countries, so long riven by enmity, are for the moment getting on much better than usual.

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