"In the midst of feeling really safe, there was this reality yesterday that we could die from bullets and explosions in our American home, " he said.

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"It's not a safe feeling, " says Steelman.

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The Sarbanes-Oxley act and other measures may lull investors into feeling that it is safe once again to go back into the water.

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"As long as you're with the front pack, there's a feeling that you're safe, " says Jonathan Dugas, a sports scientist and author of the blog Science of Sport.

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Mrs Morrissey said the school's ethos was important to parents as was a feeling that their child would be safe and well cared for.

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You put us back into a cycle where the responsible gun owners who don't mind some minor changes to encourage upholding the American tradition of safe shooting get stuck feeling defensive against the condescension of people who've never fired a gun.

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But my hope is that after a difficult year -- and this year is going to be a difficult year -- that businesses start investing again, they start making decisions that, you know, in fact there's money to be made out there, customers or consumers start feeling that their jobs are stable and safe, and they start making purchases again.

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So this has amplified the feeling that this diplomatic situation, this struggle with the PKK and its safe havens in northern Iraq has gone on long enough.

NPR: After Turkish Airstrikes, Rice Visits Kirkuk

"The bottom line is that, without wishing to be the slightest bit complacent, we feel that HBOS, in this particular storm and given its business characteristics, is in as a safe a harbour as is possible, while at the same time feeling commercially rather frustrated, " he wrote in the letter dated 18 March.

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