Word: luring
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...lure of being involved in the New Hampshire primary, making news, drew many people to Dartmouth," she says...
William Julius Wilson, whose 1987 book The Truly Disadvantagedis a staple in almost any course which attempts to address issues of race, class and poverty, decided to leave the University of Chicago primarily because of the lure of Harvard's academic community. He said that Harvard had achieved a "critical mass of outstanding scholars who are engaged in national debates...
...going to sell at least 40 million units over five albums." But the only thing worse than signing superstars to deals that are too rich is not signing them at all. No record-company suit wants to be known as the guy who lost Janet Jackson. Plus big names lure other big names. Bruce Springsteen's manager brought him to Columbia in 1972 in large part because the label had Bob Dylan. Says Jackson's lawyer, Don Passman: "There's some trophy value to having artists of this magnitude...
...succumbed to the lure of the Harvard name," Weaver says...
...SPYING IT'S CALLED THE "feed." When an intelligence service wants to plant a double agent--a spy who defects to a hostile service but is actually still working for his old agency--the agent is often given real secrets to pass along. The "feed" information is designed to lure the enemy into accepting him so he can begin passing along phony material that will cause them to waste money and resources. During the cold war, the CIA became the master of the feed. So generous was the agency with its information that many KGB officers got big promotions because...