Word: lures
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Indeed, part of the networks' strategy to lure back Saturday-morning viewers focuses on copying a big secret of Nickelodeon's success: promotion, promotion, promotion. Fox, for example, has tripled the marketing and promotion budget, in part to advertise its kids' fare on cable and radio stations. ABC is now using its prime-time Friday-night block, which includes youth-oriented series like Clueless, to aggressively promote shows airing the next morning...
...Nazi plunder of Jewish property, possessions and capital was horrible but almost "understandable" [WORLD, Oct. 28]. Victors have got the spoils for millenniums, but Switzerland's masquerade as a neutral safe haven to lure and then steal $3 billion to $7 billion in victims' assets was unprecedented, vile treachery. The Swiss banks should feel humiliated that more than 50 years have passed without their addressing the disposition of Jewish wealth. WILLIAM P. SAUNDERS Bloomfield, Michigan Via E-mail...
Apparently the hunters who use bait to lure game into an ambush don't know the definition of hunting. It is the pursuit of game; the bears are not supposed to come to the hunters. If the "long hours and exhausting effort" required are too much for these mighty woodsmen, they should take themselves to a shooting gallery--although the targets are rather small. MARY KRESIN New York City...
...Larry Ellison of Oracle--have been promising to turn the PC industry on its ear with a revolutionary machine they call the network computer, or NC. This stripped-down, easy-to-use communications device would cost less than $500, plug seamlessly into all kinds of computer networks and lure millions of technophobic home users onto the Internet. Best of all, as far as McNealy and Ellison are concerned, it would be based on a new programming language, Java, that promises to make obsolete today's overstuffed computer operating systems and feature-heavy application programs--the bread and butter of their...
...advocates of signing had strong policy arguments too: the welfare system really did trap people in a cycle of idleness and dependence, just as Clinton had said; something had to be done to lure or push them into productive work; the bill at hand was the best and possibly last chance the President would get to reform it. Yes, it contained very objectionable features: a sharp cut in food stamps and a ban on many social services to legal immigrants. But the President could in conscience sign the bill while decrying those features and pledging to work to revise them...