Word: luring
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...like the old days," laments Rand Morrison, senior broadcast producer on Public Eye and a 48 Hours veteran. "Now everyone's been on TV. It's not a lure. You'll call someone, and they'll say, 'You're the fifth person who's called me.' There's an astonishing level of sophistication too. People are in on the mechanism. They're like, 'Are you picking me up [for the show in a limo]?'" Winning a guest, adds senior editorial producer Nancy Duffy, "ultimately boils down to that person's sense of nostalgia, who they've watched...
SIHL's dazzling performance is one lure for investors, but an even bigger one is the company's reputation for guanxi, or political connections. They emanate from SIHL's parent, known as SIIC, or the Shanghai Industrial Investment (Holdings) Co., with interests in more than 200 businesses around the world. SIIC is owned by the Shanghai city government. Not to be ignored is the fact that China's State President, Jiang Zemin, is a former mayor of Shanghai. "The name of the game in China is relationships," explains Kent Rossiter, a senior investment analyst at Nikko Securities Co. (Asia). "Shanghai...
...phone companies, cable companies, Microsoft and Netscape make it even easier to use the Internet's open standards for browsing the Web, chatting and sending mail. AOL hopes the WorldCom deal will eventually allow it to offer higher-speed access through phone lines, but cable and wireless technologies could lure impatient users away from cumbersome dial-up services. Customers could also become turned off by the increasingly intrusive ads, upon which AOL's flat-price business model now depends. And while Microsoft has yet to perfect its own MSN service, even Case observes that Gates' behemoth usually gets things right...
...teacher in Hawaii, worried a little. But Case was operating with a bit of screwy good luck and the market savvy that comes from hard knocks. He looked at American consumers and somehow understood what it would take to get them online. IBM and CompuServe bet that the real lure would be lots of fancy computer features. Case, with the taste of dozens of complex pizzas still in his mouth, knew better. What America wanted was cheese, tomato sauce and occasionally some pepperoni. AOL would reek with simplicity...
...Diana and Dodi's last meal ended, 20 or more photographers were still waiting outside the hotel. Inside, it was decided that Dodi's Mercedes and the black Range Rover that Diana had used for shopping, both cars familiar to the paparazzi, would be used as decoy vehicles to lure them away. To complete the illusion, Dodi's regular driver was assigned to the Range Rover. Meanwhile, Dodi, Diana and a Fayed bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, 29, would be driven away by Paul in a smaller Mercedes 280 leased by the hotel. At 12:20 a.m. Paul pulled that...