In Squire Romolee's feast, Sarah Josepha Hale gave mythic meaning to an essentially domestic festival, offering ordinary Americans an opportunity to join their own stories to the national story through feasting and sharing.
Bank of Ireland is offering ordinary savings account holders rates of 3.25% and an eye-watering rate of 6% in a "double your interest rate" deal for those who leave their money on deposit for two years.
Many companies, though, have discovered that offering ordinary customers just a whiff of the rarefied air can actually enhance the bottom line, even if it stirs a certain amount of envy and resentment.
The principle of self-help incorporates into the community development process the means of offering ordinary citizens the opportunity to share in making important decisions about their living conditions (Anyanwu 1992).
Unicredit is offering 1.12 ordinary shares for each Capitalia share, the banks said.
The budget hotel group which, by number of hotels, is China's third largest has filed an amended application this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for offering 30,300,000 ordinary shares in the form of ADRs for an assumed initial public offering price of $3.33 per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated public offering price range.
Surrounding her is a small sea of offerings, ordinary yet special -- cakes, cookies, candies, breads, fruit, even infant formula -- that cover counter tops and the dining room table.
Referring to the discharge of the teenager, Thomas Geary, Mr. Holzer added: "It's not exactly a stay of execution, but it offers genuine evidence that Lincoln did, in fact, tend to the business of offering justice to ordinary Americans, even at the end of his life".
True, the government was not in the habit of rescuing mismanaged corporations nor, for that matter, of offering aid to ordinary Americans who lost jobs and homes when the economy collapsed.
Bauer Media Group, based in Hamburg, said it would stop publishing Der Landser, which said it was simply offering tales of ordinary soldiers in World War II but was the subject of complaints by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, which said the magazine promoted flattering stories about officers and units associated with the Holocaust.
Mr. Bates noted that travel companies as well as corporate travel managers are adjusting how and when they offer customer service — including offering more service outside ordinary business hours — to respond to younger travelers' expectation that they can go on a smartphone or a laptop, log onto Facebook or send a text, and find what they are looking for immediately.
