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...especially high premium on education and skills when they relocate. They're looking for workers who won't require much extra training, on which U.S. companies spend billions each year. Economic development officials from Tennessee, North Carolina and Kentucky have found that big corporate fish rise quickly to the bait of their strong university research assets and skilled workers. "The No. 1 issue is education," explains Ady. "Jobs are changing so fast that companies need completely adaptable, flexible work forces. Ten years ago, two-thirds of our clients would locate in the lowest-cost town. Now that's rare...
...firm offers seminars and courses that typically cost $10,000. But Sterling's true aim is to hook customers for Scientology. "The church has a rotten product, so they package it as something else," says Peter Georgiades, a Pittsburgh attorney who represents Sterling victims. "It's a kind of bait and switch." Sterling's founder, dentist Gregory Hughes, is now under investigation by California's Board of Dental Examiners for incompetence. Nine lawsuits are pending against him for malpractice (seven others have been settled), mostly for orthodontic work on children...
...example, Charlestown Fisherman captures a man, pensive and alone, deside a curved railing which separates him from the water. He turns away from the photographer and audience while he puts bait on his fishing hook, underscoring the privacy and calm of the scene. Here the man is not in opposition to the railing, a barrier between him and the ocean, but acts alone beside the metal structure...
...lonely Rhew made the best of an unhappy situation, not willing to easily give up the familiar privileges accorded his more fortunate neighbors. Using Oreo cookies as bait, Rhew lured his entrymates to squeeze into his closet-like room for several 3 a.m. study breaks...
...create the danger of dependency? Well, what is that danger? It is twofold: a run-up of price and a cutoff of supply. True, our interest is in paying as little as possible for oil in the long run, not just today. Too low a price could be sucker bait, discouraging alternative energy sources and conservation, and setting the stage for a bigger rip-off tomorrow. It is impossible to say what price today minimizes the long-run cost of oil for consumers. What you can say for sure is that oil producers have exactly the opposite objective: maximum revenue...