Aides and prosecutors have dismissed the Malev accident as "an ordinary car crash" and Ms. Timoshenko's mishap as a publicity stunt.
A blogger from Xiamen named tufuwugan tweeted this message on Monday morning, and his post soon began to rocket around Sina Weibo, the Twitter-like service on the mainland: "It was an ordinary car crash, I wouldn't have cared much about it, but you all got nervous, deleting posts everywhere — only then did I start getting suspicious about the real story.
In Airbag an ordinary car has crashed against a steel post in the courtyard.
The economy has crashed, ordinary people are suffering, rightwing ideology has been disgraced--and the old order endures.
That's one of the lessons painfully and humorously driven home by the upcoming comedy "Peeples," starring Craig Robinson as an ordinary guy who crashes his girlfriend's posh family weekend in the Hamptons while trying to impress her domineering father.
This is shown in the fact that when I was there, two weeks into the full-blown crisis, the Icelandic newspapers hadn't published any stories about the ordinary victims of the crash - at least, none mentioning any names.
She said it was the rich who benefited from the Bank printing money and cutting interest rates in the years after the 2008 financial crash, while "ordinary, working class people" were asked to make sacrifices in terms of stagnating pay, job insecurity and unaffordable housing.
She noted that "it wasn't the wealthy who made the biggest sacrifices after the financial crash, but ordinary, working class families".
Working-class Americans pulled back from Democrats in this last period of Democratic governance because of President Obama's insistence on heralding economic progress and the bailout of the irresponsible elites, while ordinary people's incomes crashed and they continued to struggle financially.
One MicroMort is a one-in-a-million chance of death, which is roughly the risk of dying from an accident such as a car crash on an ordinary day in Britain.That baseline allows for some illuminating comparisons.
