The point is that ordinary folk and the 1% are not different classes of people.

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"He is an ordinary criminal defendant at this point, and he is likely to remain that way, " Toobin said.

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If we had done a regular poll over those four days, we would have shown a 16-point lead -- almost identical to the 15-point lead in an ordinary (non-tracking) ABC poll conducted on those same days.

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So, from the point of view of the ordinary citizen, the current recession has been grinding on for 53 months, with no sign of ending.

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At that point account earnings are taxed as ordinary income to the student at his own rate, usually just 15%.

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The 320 x 480 screen sounds strictly ordinary, but on top is some 10-point multitouch capacitive input -- Synaptics' new ClearPad 3000 if we had to guess.

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Anderson wants to say something quirky and powerful about love and the miraculousness of ordinary lives, but his world neither intersects with ours at any point nor hangs together as an independent magical creation.

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Everything about Opus Dei, at least from the official point of view, exists to promote this aim: forming ordinary laymen and women in Christian doctrine and spirituality, so that they may sanctify the world from within, using their own judgment about the best means to do so in their particular profession or walk of life.

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Behind the bland faade of a nondescript office park, a visitor is using a joystick to point at a crude graphic of a spring rendered on the screen of an ordinary PC.

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