Word: tempt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johnson, who controls a majority of BET's voting stock, now has a thorny problem: sweetening his offer will siphon capital from BET's planned expansion. On the other hand, since he has essentially put the company up for sale, a failure to raise the bid might tempt deep-pocketed media giants like NBC or Disney to make a bid. Johnson is adamant that he won't cede control. Says he: "I will not give up my stake. Never. Why should I, when I can make this company grow so much larger...
...inflation--that is, the taxable gain would be reduced by the amount that prices had risen over the life of the investment. Treasury officials contend they would be forced to erect a whole new bureaucratic apparatus of agents, forms and experts to police the change. The changes could tempt investors to divert money into unproductive investments that nonetheless yield lightly taxed capital gains, like the half-empty office buildings that sprouted before the 1986 reform...
...been rocked for months by another federal investigation, dubbed Silver Shovel, in which 13 officials have been indicted on bribe-taking charges, leading so far to one conviction and two guilty pleas. Last week the mayor reacted to the latest of those indictments with a stern admonition, "When people tempt you with cash, don't accept it." The question that many in Chicago were asking last week: Did the mayor's brother follow that counsel...
...Fairy Godmother arrives, she whisks Cinderella away to dance with the Four Seasons and their Cavaliers before arriving at the Prince's Royal Ball. After Cinderella runs away from the dance, the Prince falls into a deep slumber in which he dreams of Spanish, Egyptian and Asian princesses who tempt him, but cannot compare to Cinderella's beauty or charm...
...couldn't these incentives tempt doctors to give patients the cheapest rather than the best treatment--just as conventional HMOs are savagely criticized for doing? Maybe. Minnesota executives are convinced that the only long-term way to keep costs down without limiting services is to educate patients to take responsibility for their own care by following healthy habits as well as choosing and cooperating with the right doctors. Choice Plus is designed above all to give patients the information they need to do that...