Word: lure
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Levine also said the department will investigate ways in which to create Core Curriculum courses that are more thematic in the hopes that they will lure students into departmental offerings...
...taken literally: a set is recognizably a set, not a house or a tree, and speeches palpably differ from authentically aimless conversation. What makes a set seem real, what enables dialogue to stand for experience is the writer's capacity to create an alternative world, distinctively his own, and lure audiences into it. That talent is the true measure of voice, a blend of personality and vision...
Martin said faculty appointments will present a challenge because of intense competition, but added that Harvard's program should be sufficiently attractive to lure some experts...
Humphrey has been less than cooperative with would-be rescuers. He has outmaneuvered tugboats that tried to herd him, and disdained efforts to lure him toward salt water with tape recordings of his breed's distinctive sounds. Towing, says Ferrari, "has always been disastrous. We could drown him or tangle him." Though fresh water will inevitably wear down the oceangoing creature, optimistic experts predict the whale can survive for more than two weeks in the brackish tides of the delta. That gives Humphrey's helpers the slim hope that with time to reconsider his position, he will find...
...Psychology and Social Relations Department and the Business School are trying to lure a Yale social psychologist to a joint lifetime post, a step that could signal a long-term expansion of their one-year-old joint degree program...