For the moment, however, the big winners from the balanced-budget agreement are not ordinary Americans but tax accountants.
They are helping their rich friends but not ordinary people.
It is not ordinary citizens but rich tycoons from Hollywood or Silicon Valley, or special interests such as unions for prison guards, teachers or nurses, that bankroll most initiatives onto the ballots.
Shares are a case in point, driven by foreign investors, oligarchs on strategic buying sprees and the fortunes of a few big firms, not ordinary Russians taking a sudden interest in the stockmarket.
Not only ordinary people, but also officers of institutions and members of investment committees are asking those questions.
According to Kiyoaki Sawada, a senior finance manager leading one team, these are not like ordinary project teams.
He was not an ordinary businessman but an artist of the human experience.
So what I'm trying to underscore is what the people in Elkhart already understand: that this is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill recession.
This lady dissipated her capital not in ordinary business reverses but through dozens of transactions, some simply foolish, many involving pedestrian fraud against her.
But this is not an ordinary year.
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It suggests one reduced tax rate applied to all types of income, not distinguishing between ordinary and long-term capital gains.
I'm not saying that ordinary schools are going away, but there are certainly going to be a lot more of these schools.
"The organization gets more excited about creating something unique and different from the rest of our competitors, not just creating ordinary products, " he says.
Research is ongoing to figure out precisely what these "dark" components are, because they do not interact with ordinary matter and have never been directly detected.
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However, when Mitt Romney was called a wealthy rich guy that is out of touch and does not care about ordinary people, he was unable to articulately defend himself.
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Saylor is not just an ordinary tech industry observer.
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Is it safe to say that's the one thing you should not do as an ordinary investor?
And it was still not time for the ordinary devotees to have their turn.
They are, as might be expected from such complex molecules, not cheap compared with ordinary solvents.
Kogan may be doing too much forceful marketing in private while not communicating enough with ordinary investors.
Ordinary, not-marching-in-step atomic beams are already used in precision clocks, and to etch some high-performance computer chips.
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For Apple to trade at these multiples is not out of the ordinary.
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"Water levels on the river are not something that we ordinary people can do anything about, " says Zhang Jun.
These include side deals "not made in the ordinary course of business, " debt-rating changes, unregistered stock sales and more.
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