Word: lures
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...same time, however, the new government is aware that the American experience has shown that force alone is unlikely to defeat the insurgency. The government is combining get-tough measures with political incentives to lure more moderate elements in the insurgency to pursue their goals through political channels, particularly the elections to be held in January. The interim government plans later this week to unveil an amnesty offer to insurgents willing to put down their weapons. This announcement has been delayed for more than a week, surrounded by some confusion over just how and to whom it will apply...
...rooms upstairs, fitted with every luxury found at the Hassler, are a bargain at $300-$420 per night. Just having the use of such an address as a meeting place is well worth the $24 annual membership fee. But even that is waived for now in a promotion to lure members, since a wine tasting is included free in the annual membership...
These successes have afforded Ledecky the opportunity to indulge his life-long love of sports. He has owned a minority share in the professional hockey and basketball franchises of Washington, D.C. and made plays for a few other professional sports teams, attempting to lure a baseball team to the nation’s capital...
...different outcome, Skate joined Opposition plotters at the provincial town of Alotau, saying he had "bugger all" to do as acting vice-regent and wanted to be a politician again. Some government M.P.s too were enticed to Alotau; others, bearing offers of ministries and vice-ministries, were sent to lure them back. Repentant rebels later said they'd been intimidated by political minders with pistols; "I had to swim with the tide," said one, "until I could get away safely...
...lure of Modigliani's pinwheeling life may help to explain the long lines outside the Jewish Museum in New York City, where "Modigliani: Beyond the Myth" opened earlier this month. (It remains there through Sept. 19, then moves on to Toronto and Washington.) But the famous charm of his art is the other explanation. He settled early upon a formula of powerful appeal, a convergence of fastidious lines and abstracted facial features, of intimacy and enigma, that made modernism inviting, even comfortable. He didn't dynamite the human form as Picasso did or distill it to its essence like Matisse...