• After his ordinary-level exams he was taught to be a human bomb.

    ECONOMIST: Is as hard as it sounds

  • He also manages to reflect both sides of the argument, at least at the level of ordinary people.

    BBC: The Squanderland Roof and the eurozone crisis

  • The vigour of American Catholicism at the level of ordinary believers is in sharp contrast to the severe institutional and financial problems that have engulfed the church since a scandal over child abuse erupted in 2002.

    ECONOMIST: Pope Benedict begins his tour

  • Avalon resort, in northeastern West Virginia, takes ordinary activities to a nude level.

    CNN: On 'nakation,' forget worries and clothes

  • It really does show the level of support for ordinary officers going about their day-to-day business.

    BBC: UK

  • Twenty years ago, Dr Ericsson tried to prove it by training some ordinary laboratory volunteers up to prodigy-level performance in a number-memory task.

    ECONOMIST: Who wants to be a genius?

  • The market has become more of an exclusive gambling club for the very rich than a level playing field open to the ordinary investor.

    NEWYORKER: A Dirty Business

  • The film is rescued and enlivened by Browning, who, for all her radiance, grounds her character in an ordinary jauntiness, even when she graduates to the next level of perversity lying, bare and drugged, in a large bed, in a secluded house, and awaiting the attentions of her predators.

    NEWYORKER: Sleeping Beauty

  • Either way, your real estate holdings are taxed on a pass-through basis: no income tax is paid at the property level, and you pay personal income tax at ordinary income rates.

    FORBES: The Arbitrariness of the Buffett Rule

  • The technological advantage that program traders have over ordinary retail investors is massive and needs to be reined in to level the playing field.

    FORBES: The "Twitter Crash" Is "Flash Crash" Redux

  • If people at his level make such outrageous comments, then what should we expect from ordinary fans?

    BBC: Chechen leader Kadyrov sorry for stadium PA outburst

  • Normally, candidates would be selected by higher-level party leaders with just a pro forma show of endorsement by ordinary members.

    ECONOMIST: China

  • With health-care inflation outstripping the ordinary kind and an increasing aversion to higher taxes, Britons' extraordinarily low level of private spending on health may have to change.

    ECONOMIST: Health-care reform

  • Our tester W8 wagon had a mere 9, 181 miles on the odometer when it arrived, but it clearly had warped front brake rotors, a rattle in the automatic transmission lever from overzealous shifting in the manual mode, and bushings that had already been flogged at a level equivalent to what 100, 000 miles of driving by any ordinary owner might do.

    FORBES: Test Drives

  • Unrealized gains are not taxed, long term realized gains and qualified dividends are taxed at the federal rate of 15%, short term realized gains, non-qualified dividends and interest income are taxed at ordinary income rates, which today can be as high as 35% at the federal level and higher still adding in state taxes.

    FORBES: Reported Returns Don't Tell The Full Story

  • 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.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Jake? Story

  • An 80-page scheme proposed last month would vest authority in four tiers of government below the provincial level, with some seats reserved for women and lots of mechanisms to make representatives and bureaucrats answerable to ordinary people.

    ECONOMIST: The general dictates the tune to which Pakistan will dance

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