After Ms. Holmes's initial three-year contract, the trustees offered her only one more year with the company.

The trustees also offered small cash prizes to five runners up.

The trustees of the already existing Minden Normal and Business College offered a building.

But the trustees have not offered any larger strategy, and if the Mayor has his way, the task force report could well provide that strategy.

The trustees offered to give the university to the state, as long as the debt was guaranteed.

They may want the protection which trustees can offer against grasping relatives.

Desperate to close its money-losing commuter service, the railroad's trustees offered its commuters $1,000 each to stop using the trains.

In 1895, the trustees offered building, land and equipment to the City of Brooklyn for use as a free public school.

So when the phone rang a few weeks ago and the trustees of Proctor Academy offered him the job, he did not hesitate.