By the arrival of her third decade on the throne, she was in her element.

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Roode, who grew up on a nearby farm, is relaxed--completely in her element.

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She's more about country living and was in her element watching an equine display by the Republican Guard in Paris.

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For Curt Morse, it was love at first sight: She was beautiful, stylish, and at perfect ease in her element.

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As Katerina Kriticos, a 24-year-old recent graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology, strolls into the Ted Baker store on Fifth Avenue, she's clearly in her element.

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Ms. BLACKBURN: I think, for me, one of the things that shocked me and led me to want to write a book about Billie Holiday was because every time you pick up a CD or a record or a biography, before they've even begun anything else about her, there was a mention of this drug element in her life.

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The key element in her formula (and most of the others) is that blink-and-miss-it metallic touch.

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There was an element of meteorology in her BSc geophysical sciences degree at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.

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Or as an economist might put it, if there are positive externalities generated by a business (good things for the wider economy for which the company doesn't receive direct financial payment), the chief executive is already being amply rewarded for them by a surplus element in his or her pay.

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Uncomplainingly, she nestled in their arms before she was lowered to her element again.

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