Word: wooing
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...funds to "swarms of locusts" that fall on companies, devour all they can, and then move on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people whose jobs they destroy," he told a German newspaper. The fire and brimstone is part of the spd's effort to woo back voters disillusioned by the government's own economic reforms. Last Friday, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder himself joined the apocalyptic debate by calling on his ministers to examine whether hedge funds should be subject to tougher regulation. The remarks are striking, given that the same government authorized hedge funds...
...into Halo 3." Microsoft is expected to announce that Xbox 360 will play Halo 2 and other Xbox games.) But there's still a significant demographic that for some reason doesn't consider wiggling a joystick to pretend they're shooting somebody a major priority in their lives. To woo this wider group, video games will have to get easier, more approachable, and they will have to expand into genres that don't yet exist...
...sweet memory for a film executive may be prehistoric to the kids Hollywood wants to woo. As Chris Rock says about The Longest Yard, "It's a 30-year-old movie. The young movie audience doesn't know it even existed. For those people, [the new one] is just its own movie." Besides, he asks, what's wrong with a remake? "[Plenty of] Hendrix songs are remakes, and the first couple of Beatles albums had a lot of somebody else's songs...
...guise of a boy and joins the court of Orsino (Fernando Berdion-Del Valle ’08), the local Duke with whom she falls in love. Unfortunately, Orsino is madly in love with Olivia (Anastasia Artemyev ’08), to whom he sends his new page to woo on his behalf...
Another convincing rationale, but also one of my concerns. The thing is, while the College is trying to woo me with a Beirut tournament and the suggestion that by refusing to give “only 10 bucks” I am unappreciative, another side of the campus—students screened as potentially higher donors—are appealed to with a different lure: the promise of influence...