Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cohen added that beer will attract students who would not be lured by the games and non-alcoholic refreshments. "There are a large quantity of students on this campus that would show up," Cohen said...
Opposites attract. If we didn't believe that slightly dubious premise, our culture--not to mention our inner lives--would be infinitely poorer: no Wuthering Heights, no Bringing Up Baby. On the other hand, to be strictly fair, had we been spared that thought we would also have been spared Abie's Irish Rose and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? You win some, you lose some...
...pair say they're happier as a duo than as part of a megagroup (neither of them talks to Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones very much, and drummer John Bonham died in 1980). "This is what we like," says Plant. "It doesn't attract the same attention. It suits my years and my ambition." Plant also says that although "the best place to find us is in a bar," they don't party as hard on tour as they once did. "We control it now," says Plant. "Before, it was rather amorphous--we couldn't stop it." Walking into...
...freebies online is more than simple largesse, of course. The plan is to turn a profit real soon. Bohnett is, after all, an M.B.A.-packing capitalist. Like other entrepreneurs who have struggled with the How-Do-I-Make-Money-Online riddle, he figured that the first step was to attract a crowd. He started doing that in January 1995, when he got a friend to hang a camera out of the window of his Beverly Hills office and transmit to the Web live images of a bus-stop bench on Wilshire Boulevard. Oprah featured it and Bohnett...
...amount to interference in a tough market. "The small airlines want sympathy, so they accuse us of competing vigorously in the marketplace, which is and should be perfectly legal," argues Jon Austin, a spokesman for Northwest. And a smart strategy, perhaps. But now the big carriers have managed to attract the attention of both the Transportation and Justice departments. As Microsoft can attest, a smart business strategy isn't necessarily smart politics...