• Morton used a series of in-depth interviews with media analysts to relate a story of two young people struggling to lead ordinary lives, obsessed with their own privacy.

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  • "MPs should have to face the same problems with tax returns as their voters and the ordinary taxpayer, " Mr Wallace added.

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  • And so it is just as likely that local police will find out about these through community policing, their relationships with the community, through ordinary criminal investigations which may bring them - as we had a case in California -into contact with something that turned out to be more than ordinary crime, or through dedicated intelligence activity.

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  • When applied to finances, that lesson can help ordinary couples do extraordinary things with their money.

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  • One key part of these efforts is financial regulatory reform that will protect the economy from actions that could threaten financial and economic stability, and protect ordinary Americans in their dealings with sophisticated and powerful financial institutions.

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  • It's their spontaneity and their wit that make them so popular with ordinary people.

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  • Ordinary Americans with a dream to start their own business, they create most of the jobs that keep our workers employed.

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  • His secular opponents, meanwhile, would do better if they left their ivory towers and spent more time with the ordinary people of Turkey.

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  • Presidents can and should get out of Washington on occasion to meet with ordinary Americans and hear from them about their -- the challenges they face in this difficult economy.

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  • Life is full of potential but too often people settle for a series of stale routines, allowing themselves to become content with the dull and ordinary activities that have guided their lives for years.

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  • Groups with deeper roots in Kashmir, caught between their obligations to ordinary Kashmiris and their dependence on and fear of Pakistan, were more cautious.

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  • The decision was popular with ordinary Kenyans, who felt uncomfortable with the role their country was being asked to play.

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  • With no cheaper alternative, ordinary people are forced to cut their spending on essentials like food and heating, or uproot and move away from jobs, schools and families.

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  • However, as soon as these immigrants became part of the ordinary workforce they no longer compared their wages with what they might have earned in the Caribbean but with other workers and the wage advantage was eroded.

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  • On November 16th several hundred ordinary, middle-aged Australians, with pain in their faces and tears in their eyes, packed the hall to witness a ceremony devoted to them.

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  • This 10-minute film loop features an ordinary house filled with ordinary people slowly burning, the occupants not even noticing their own destruction as they go through the motions of living draped in thick ennui.

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  • Meanwhile, ordinary depositors fed up with low savings rates prefer to put their money to work in wealth-management products sold via banks.

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  • There have been flickers of good news with tourism robust and exports growing, but many ordinary Greeks have seen their incomes slump.

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  • Ordinary Nigerians, fed up with being robbed and bullied by their leaders, would probably like to see harsh punishments for the old regime, but Mr Obasanjo, a former political prisoner himself (he served three years of a 15-year sentence for allegedly plotting a coup against Abacha before the tyrant's death set him free), is inclined to be gentle.

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  • They said they wanted something that put them eye level with everyone else, something that was stable and yet agile enough for both their ordinary, and extraordinary, pursuits.

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  • Ordinary Iraqis I speak with as I compile my stories don't talk about their lives anymore.

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  • Most archaeologists would insist the true value of their work lies away from the glamour of kings and nobles and with the lives of the ordinary people of the past.

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  • Ordinary hackers outfit themselves with the clubs and balls and shoes and copper wristbands of their favourite pros in the hope that a little of the magic will rub off on them.

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  • "Every day thousands of ordinary men and women with a sense of duty, pride and professionalism put on their police uniform - a uniform that reflects what they do and what they believe in, " he said.

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  • There are builders who sugarcoat their proposals with big-name architects, irresistible bait in a city that shamefully settles for the ordinary.

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  • The Marcangelos will continue to the end with their tried-and-tested, no-nonsense approach to trade, which aims to give the ordinary man on the street exactly what he wants.

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  • One of his election posters invited Croats to have coffee with their would-be president and Mr Mesic has been doing his best to put this invitation into practice by meeting ordinary people as often as possible.

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