Yet looking at the neatly-bridled donkeys on the platforms, and listening to them bray, it struck me that really it was too easy to lay all the blame for the straw-like insubstantiality of contemporary British politics at their stable door.

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Although it was easy for all to see that forty years of Airbus subsidies caused real harm to U.S. industry it is extremely hard to prove subsidies, in and of themselves, caused significant price undercutting, price suppression or depression in a short five year period.

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It was kind of like filling out a college application, so that made it really easy -- did it all for you.

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All of a sudden, it seemed that there was a conceptually easy way to make a single website look good on multiple screen sizes just worry about the pixel width of the viewport.

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Cohen said it appears the ricin in all three cases was a crude form that's relatively easy to make.

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In an era in which politicians are all too often greeted with indifference, it is easy to forget that Britain was once led by a woman who inspired passion - both love and loathing.

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"If it was that easy to gain share against New York, we said, in a year, two years all the established exchanges in Europe will be facing similar types of issues, " Greifeld recalls.

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