Word: luring
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...specialized nature of the music was more of a lure to Harvard Square customers than it is to those in Porter Square, Humphreys says...
Women's tennis Coach Gordon Graham is excited about the addition and foresees the center as a source of both team pride and an attractive lure for new recruits...
...traditions has been imperiled for centuries, first by Muslim invaders and then by British imperialism. But both were minor nuisances next to the colossus of Western--which is mainly to say American--culture. "My friends are enthralled by the West," Narayan complains. He believes Sanskrit is the way to lure them back. He frequently holds 10-day workshops throughout India, teaching people spoken Sanskrit. When he visits his boyhood village, his father watches him instruct local youngsters. "I think he feels bad because I am not making much money," says Narayan. "But he is proud because I am serving...
...missile shield. Such a system, however, would use much of the same difficult and costly technology that doomed the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s. Perfecting it now will be daunting--if not impossible. EDGE China, which could try to use the threat of missile attack to lure Taiwan back to the motherland...
...year and a half later, Aida--show revamped, title pared down--is just days away from its Broadway opening. And darned if they haven't pulled it off. Unlike Beauty and the Beast, Aida doesn't arrive with a presold children's story and a hit movie to lure the family throngs. Unlike The Lion King, it doesn't break new theatrical ground--not even for the pyramid, whose only remnant is a laser triangle glimpsed briefly in the second act. But on its own terms, Aida is a big, bright, ingeniously staged show that--not going...