Word: luring
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...million in its past fiscal year, the warehouse giant has become America's unlikely leader in retail wine sales, and it isn't hawking just $8 jugs. Costco sells more fine wine than anyone else, and doing so has become a key part of its strategy to lure more upscale shoppers. Someone who spots a deal on a 1993 Dom Perignon ($80) may also pick up a pair of Waterford goblets for $60. Exploiting such buying patterns has helped Costco to push its average checkout ticket to $109, compared with $60 to $80 at competing warehouse clubs, according to Bill...
...error occurred while processing this directive]Another lure is the population's utter devotion to hospitality. I experienced this immediately after arriving on my late-night flight, when a female airport employee insisted on seeing me all the way to my homestay...
...shining at night in Kaesong those illuminating monuments to the late "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung. Many city have electricity at certain times of the day. Foreign reporters who visited Shinuiju last month, for the unveiling of a plan to turn it into a free economic zone designed to lure investors, were struck by the contrast with the neighboring Chinese city of Dandong. Dandong at night is a blaze of lights; across the river, Shinuiju is in near-total darkness. Apartment blocks in Pyongyang are lit at night these days, but there are few lights outdoors - except, of course, those...
...Obsolescent then; obsolete 40 years later. The Broadway musical has lived so long in the past it's a wonder it has any life at all. Producers pick creaky shows to revive, hoping audiences can be separated from their $100 bills by the lure of ancient songs and what can pass for the old innocence. Composers choose a remote temporal setting partly because everyone else does, partly because the distant past accommodates their quaint or strained lyric styles; Broadway hasn't sung in a modern pop idiom for almost a half-century. The Street can't decide whether it wants...
...Jong Il selected the 39-year-old entrepreneur to spearhead an experiment in social and economic engineering in the town of Sinuiju on the border with China. Yang was to be Chief Executive of a free-trade zone with its own laws and elections. The project is meant to lure industry to the destitute communist country, helping it join the modern world and possibly get off U.S. President George W. Bush's hit list. China's close ties to North Korea make Yang's predicament all the more unexpected. Joseph Cheng, political science professor at City University of Hong Kong...