Additional paternity leave (APL) will allow an employee to take up to 26 weeks' leave to care for the child, on top of two weeks of ordinary paternity leave.

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Photography aided mass migration, as ordinary folks could leave something of themselves back in the old country, or send home a picture of themselves in their new and better lives.

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Where does all this leave disenchanted ordinary folk?

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Not everyone could be extremely cool, because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

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In the early years of the war, diplomats were encouraged to leave their compounds and meet ordinary Afghans.

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But this weekend, European negotiators - and Germany - may well have to decide whether they care enough about tiny Cyprus taking responsibility for its own banking problems to let it become not just the first Eurozone country to raid ordinary bank deposits, but also the first to leave the euro.

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Ordinary run-of-the-mill business cycles can leave millions jobless.

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But at least from the perspective of ordinary investors, the situation is not the ruin that this film and its narrator Matt Damon leave us wallowing in.

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