Word: lures
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...facebook, no longer will students have to bear the frustration of being rejected from several Houses’ closed online facebooks. Whether one is simply scoping an elusive classmate, or curious of a friend’s first-year registration day photo—we all know the lure of that peculiar form of entertainment—a campus-wide facebook will facilitate the Harvard community with the names and basics of their peers, without worry of opening the site to unsolicited strangers...
...more easily afford a price war than Toys "R" Us and other toy specialists. Wal-Mart's sales of high-margin items like flat-screen TVs can make up for losses on low-margin toys. It's a classic loss-leader attack. Wal-Mart figures that supercheap toys will lure customers to the store, where they might buy pricier items. That puts the squeeze on toy specialists, which must either follow suit and risk losses or try to hold their prices and bet that their superior customer service and selection will enable them to compete...
Some critics dismiss coopting Chopra as a ploy. According to Gladden J. Pappin ’04, to whom Lurie pointed when asked to name an “enemy,” this is just a way to lure voters with Chopra’s popularity...
...love affair with art has rekindled lately, just in time for our generation to appreciate a flowering of stunning temporary collections. But there are ominous signs. High-profile shows may have an addictive effect on museums, as they come to rely on heavy marketing and hype to lure ever larger numbers of Americans. And commercialization has results besides elevated attendance—how many more over-promoted, “once-in-a-lifetime” art exhibits can there be before museums resort to “Michelangelo vs. Raphael: The Final Smackdown” to boost interest...
...million inhabitants are strangers who arrived from across China only in the past decade. Neighbors aren't particularly interested in what goes on down the hall; they'll probably be moving on themselves before long. As the police tell it, that new anonymity helped Ma and a female accomplice lure a dozen women to their Shenzhen home, chop them to bits and secretly scatter their body parts along a riverbank without drawing suspicion. "I thought he was odd," says Ma's neighbor Zeng, who is from Sichuan province. "But so many people come and go that I didn...