Asmall percentage of people with bipolar disorder display rapid cycling, which is characterized by: four or more manic or depressive episodes every year. thoughts that shift rapidly and loosely from topic to topic. an inability to initiate or persist in even simple forms of goal-directed behavior. flat affect and a dramatic reduction in emotional responsiveness and facial expressions.

Congress is controlled by the democrats. president yaeger, a republican, takes several actions that are opposed by the democrats in congress. first, the president introduces a new budget that cuts most of the government's social programs and gives tax breaks to the wealthy. next, president yaeger negotiates a trade treaty with a nation accused of human rights abuses. then, the president gives pardons to three republican senators who have been convicted of crimes.