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...Tupelo? The city has only one significant geographic advantage: proximity to the Tennessee Valley Authority's system of hydroelectric dams, which offers electric rates 20% cheaper than the national average. But other towns in several states can offer the same deal. Public officials in the Tupelo area lure industry with low taxes, free road and rail connections--even subsidized rent and low-interest loans. But much of America engages in that kind of smokestack chasing. Tupelo has a low cost of living and cheap, nonunion labor. So does South Carolina. So does South America...
There is also the fact that players on World Cup teams have to be citizens of their country, so the option of using money to lure superstar players is eliminated, while any player who changes his citizenship to play for another country would most probably find his health in serious jeopardy...
...could resist the lure of an insider’s look at the Supreme Court, written by the Chief Justice himself? Especially when, in the preface, William H. Rehnquist states that he is writing for “the interested, informed non-lawyer,” and wishes to “leave the reader feeling that he knows considerably more about the Supreme Court when he puts the book down than he did when he picked it up”? In the aptly titled The Supreme Court, Rehnquist succeeds in doing exactly that, throwing in anecdotes, trivia...
Former Dean of the Faculty and Geyser University Professor Emeritus Henry Rosovsky also points out that Summers could use his national repute and the prestige of his post to lure wavering candidates to the University...
...This lure is particularly strong for "people who have had sobriety problems before," says Richard Rogg, founder and owner of the fashionable Promises Malibu--a rehab clinic where the high-profile addict can try to kick the habit. "He'll have an operation, and the doctor will give out Vicodin like they're M&M's. Soon, he's addicted. I'm hearing the same old story: 'I had five or 10 years' sobriety, but I got loaded on Vicodin, and I went...