Word: tempts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...invited you to tour their home. You peruse heritage inspired jewelry, clothing, handbags, furnishings, dining ware, cosmetics, and perfumes. Your hostess offers you a massage or make-up lesson. Or you sip herbal tea or coffee and cake in the Kafe. These lifestyle boutiques showcased in a Harlem brownstone tempt a plucky shopper to spend all afternoon...
First up were three first-graders. Unfortunately, their favorite game is Pokemon, and there won't be an Advance version until sometime next year. Duh. I did, however, manage to tempt them with Activision's Pinobee, in which kids play a flight-challenged bumblebee that frolics through a pretty forest collecting flowers, meeting fairies and dodging funny-looking bad guys. "I'm good at this!" yelled Lucas. The seven-year-olds were less impressed with Nintendo's racer, F-Zero. "This game is impossible," said Jonathan in disgust...
...concerns over preventing Iraq acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Given that both countries have a measure of self-interest in reviving commercial ties with Iraq - both are substantial Iraqi creditors - Washington is hoping that proposals to allow Baghdad to pay off some of its debt with oil revenues will tempt Moscow and Paris...
...precipitator of the accident, Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal), is an angel-faced punk who's successfully fighting Cofi, the family dog, in illegal arenas and using the winnings to tempt his brother's pregnant wife into running off with him. Then there's the supermodel Valeria (Goya Toledo), whose smart car and lithe body he almost totals just minutes after she has moved in with her latest lover. Finally, there's the witness, El Chivo (Emilio Echevarria), who has been a college professor and a guerrilla leader, and is now a street person with a cynical sideline as a killer...
...even Mitch McConnell expected Thursday night will not come until Monday. But after five years of butting up against Trent Lott's gatekeeping and McConnell's filibustering, John McCain and his shadow army of disgruntled voters finally got a soft-money ban onto the table, out where he could tempt senators with the prospect of a slightly less prostituted existence, if they were willing to take a chance. And more than half of them took...