Word: luring
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...this year?and it is midlevel managers, who command salaries ranging from $20,000 to $40,000 annually, who are getting the fattest increases. Indian companies are resisting, but they're losing the battle as American companies like Accenture and IBM expand in India and often lure executives with better pay packages. Silicon Valley-style job hopping is suddenly in vogue. "If an executive is working with a firm for two or three years, and he doesn't get a pay raise, then he starts to look for another job as a way to increase his salary," says software engineer...
...despite our relentless obsession with victory, despite the well-funded gold-medal strategies of sporting giants like the U.S. and China, despite the lure of multimillion-dollar advertising contracts for the most winsome of gold medalists, the Games were as much about those who finished dead last in their events as about those who took home gold. How else to explain the giddy joy of Katura Marae, proud citizen of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu? The 14-year-old came in last in her heat of the 100-m dash, yet still clocked her fastest time...
...over the millennia: for walking, for working, for being fed from the earth's natural bounty. It makes one wonder whether the next generation of oldsters will last quite as long. They will need not just the luck of the genetic draw but also the strength to renounce the lure of fast-food days and couch-potato nights that add yards of butt lard and shorten life-spans by years...
...irresistible formula for concocting the most popular Olympic event of the opening week. Start with an unroofed pool venue, which became a boisterous, giant tanning bed during the scorching morning races, add in the lure of an athlete who might be undone by hubris, and you have an Olympic experience that is hard to match...
...changes daily, so how can he know?--but I suspect the public needs to hear, in plain and forceful language, Kerry's opinion of what Bush has done and whether it has been good for America. Instead, Kerry has offered only vague criticisms and an increasingly implausible promise to lure our allies into the chaos. In a year of real crises--the "most important election of our lifetime," he says--Kerry's nostrums sound distressingly like market-tested...