Once, when winters were cold and the world seemed large, creatures roamed the earth who were permissive on social issues and at ease with big government, yet remained ever faithful to the gods of business and finance.

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Yet, perhaps because he is so clearly ill at ease, he ends up undermining his own efforts.

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Owen may not yet stand sporting comparison with Spitz and Korbut, but he looked at ease in the home of sporting greatness in Munich.

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She builds on this to suggest that Ulster's Catholics and Protestants might yet forge a new, regional identity, if Catholics finally attain a state in which they can feel at ease with themselves.

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