The biggest reason for Mr Davis's free ride, however, lies in the self-dramatising tendencies of ordinary middle-class Angelenos.
But in Japan many buyers of luxury goods have been ordinary middle-class office workers, some of whom save up for years.
It would be no exaggeration to say that Cooke transformed the image of America for the ordinary, middle-class Briton.
Manchester United has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list Class A ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Singapore will give first-class passengers no ordinary bland flight cabin, but a plush wood-and-leather affair that it has designed after studying how the world's five-star hotels do it.
And so our challenge is how do we keep growing this economy so that once again ordinary families, middle-class families, working families -- that they can live out that American Dream.
"The beauty of it is, I can cherry-pick products and hire world-class money managers unavailable to ordinary investors, " says Jeffrey A. Weber, the 33-year-old chief executive.
As a rule, he writes about completely ordinary people, middle- and working-class, from drab places.
In fact, Mr Hague has middle-class parents, went to an ordinary state school and is claimed to prefer a pint of beer.
The survey will also give details of how a decade of rapid economic growth has changed the daily life of ordinary Indians, especially among the fast-growing middle class.
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Mr Blair's parents toiled their way out of the Celtic working class, giving their son an insight into ordinary life that eludes the current prime minister and chancellor.
One might think that the ordinary laborers who worked on Lady Linda for three years would harbor class resentments toward the Von Allmens and their showboating ways.
By presenting himself as a down-to-earth Everyman who is the victim of upper-class snobbery, he has succeeded in identifying himself with ordinary Filipinos and in tapping into a wellspring of anti-elitist sentiment.
Though Rosa Parks was not the first to confront the injustice of segregation laws, her courageous act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- 381 days of peaceful protest when ordinary men, women, and children sent the extraordinary message that second-class citizenship was unacceptable.
Even if the public were being offered a majority economic stake in Hyatt, the family is planning to hold special "class B" shares that have 10 times the number of votes that ordinary shares do.
We listened on the radio to his acceptance speech, delivered with the confidently intoned upper-class enunciation that, for close to eight years now, had inspired millions of ordinary families like ours to remain hopeful in the midst of hardship.
Mateschitz, 60, typifies a new class of billionaires who got rich not by inventing a new product but by selling an ordinary one inventively.
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