We sat there with that familiar sense of security that smacks partly of shipwreck and partly of happiness without desire.

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Today, consumers are likely no less apprehensive even without such front-page assaults on their sense of marketplace security.

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What most of us look for in a home a sense of security, safety and comfort can be found without making such a major and complicated financial investment, one that, as the housing crisis has proved, can too easily end in calamity.

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And Kosovo, in particular, was important for both the Russians and the Chinese because there was the liberal West, NATO, taking action without a security council authorization, as everyone I think recalls, and thereby making decisions based on our sense of what humanitarian interests required, what liberalism required, which was very different from what the people in Moscow and rulers in China wanted.

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