Word: luring
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...population of Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana totals only 1.3 million people, nearly all of whom live in coastal cities. Up to now the city dwellers have put little pressure on the forests or the few thousand indigenous Amerindians who live in the woodlands. But economic hardship and the lure of logging revenue have begun to make the region's natural treasures more vulnerable...
...area so close to the North Pole is the nearness of Canada. A few hours of driving can take you out of the country all together and into the land of Quebee separatists, great hockey teams and single-payer medicine. Even Crimson editors are not immune to the lure, as these four found out earlier this summer...
James is right that the Hall of Fame, like the Miss America Pageant or the Mount Rushmore sculptures, was essentially a Chamber of Commerce inspiration to lure tourists. But when the Hall opened in 1939, it became a secular shrine, the Lourdes of baseball. It still is. The place evokes a simpler time of grace and grit and innocence, when players didn't seem so greedy or owners so stupid and when both sides apparently realized that the franchise they held was on loan from the fans who had invested so much of themselves in it. This vision is partly...
...pockets where they hope their wallets still are and maybe run a pre-emptive check on their dentures, just to make sure. Are automobile dealers really deciding to treat customers like decent, autonomous human beings, or is this just another ruse -- call it the integrity scam -- to lure suckers back into the showrooms...
...said, though, that except for between $400,000 to $800,000, the deficit seems to be caused by spend- ing on some of Carnesale's "unmet priorities,"such as funding research opportunities for juniorfaculties and upping salary increases to lure newprofessors...