Even a small gift, like a rubber sleeve to protect a BlackBerry, can spur unease.
The Skunk Works small gift shop is open to the public about a mile or so down the road.
If there's extra money, keep it for next year, or buy everyone a small gift to better remember the vacation.
"A very special part of the service is a floral tribute and those people who have received a transplant bring a small gift of flowers, " she said.
Finally, this past visit, after she had organized an intensive summer course in History, Language and Art for her grandchildren, I gave her a small gift of cash, amid dire warnings to apply it to nothing other than a laptop that she would then use to start a blog.
It all started so innocently with one small gift of homemade cookies that your neighbors reciprocated with a very fancy bottle of wine, which made you want to buy something even nicer the next year to thank them for that bottle of wine, which they returned with a gift certificate for a swanky restaurant in town.
They were bombarded with orders from small toy and gift shops and landed their first big account with Tower Records, the now defunct music chain.
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Alternatively a well documented gift to them of a small interest in Mariposa might have done the trick.
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In the rude marketplace, now seemingly designed for the elimination of trust, small businesses have been handed a rare gift.
By increasing its gift-giving assortment with small purses, knit scarves and sweaters, Coach will increase earnings per share 26% in the quarter over 2005, Maikis predicts.
The gift, which also included a small Alaskan state flag that was flown to the moon with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on the first manned moon landing mission, was one of about 185 such displays that were presented to the states, the United States' territories and to foreign nations.
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Gift cards have a lot of benefits for small businesspeople who want to lock in future business with new customers, and get cash up front for future sales.
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For their wedding gift, he created a piece of art: two small globes on a black plastic base torqued in so they appear to be kissing.
How to find personalized gifts on Etsy, or how to find gift cards to area merchants associations redeemable at a variety of small businesses.
What a gift it is to have one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, small enough to have sat in his palm, on permanent view for the first time.
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After a weird Freudian experience of listening to your coinage rattle around and be separated into the proper stalls, Coinstar gladly takes a small cut of the proceeds and then offers you a voucher for either cash or a gift certificate redeemable at the location.
That small amount of profit would come after you received your Buy-Back credit in the form of a Best Buy gift card and absorbed the penalty of breaking your two-year phone contract, commonly known as an early termination fee (ETF).
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