The production of ordinary enterprises is determined by the market.
Perhaps more significant, hundreds of ordinary enterprises, necessary to the safety and public life of streets and neighborhoods, and appreciated for their convenience and personal quality, can make out successfully in old buildings, but are inexorably slain by the high overhead of new construction.
If Hollywood has taught us anything over the last century it is that every so often a seemingly ordinary commercial enterprise can afford us fleeting access to the sublime.
Both railroads and their regulators started talking as if railroading were an ordinary commercial enterprise instead of a public utility.
In his philosophy, life and theater are related enterprises; ordinary citizens are actors who are simply unaware of the play, and everyone can make theater, even the untrained.
The Revolution, Adams insisted, was a collective enterprise of ordinary people punctuated by division and acrimony at every step.
Only short articles inside the paper told of the great distress on Wall Street, and an editorial on Aug. 27 proclaimed that the panic "is not a serious interruption of the ordinary channel of prosperous enterprise, but a threatened stampede of terrified stockholders, operators and directors".
The experience came in handy when, as a Credit Suisse banker, he arrived in Russia in 1992 and helped the government distribute equity in 5,000 formerly state-owned enterprises to ordinary Russians.
But searching for upsides in the economic calamity that has befallen the country, and downplaying the sense of outrage among ordinary Americans, is a dubious enterprise.
And IBM's video unit is also launching two new services to expand its footprint in live-streaming: a product that will let media companies produce high-quality live-streams over ordinary broadband connections; and an enterprise CDN product that lets companies broadcast live-stream video within their firewalls without impacting other traffic.
