Word: luring
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...they expected to be able to ignore by now. Gore is still playing defense in California, Bush in Florida. Gore has Nader gnawing on his left flank in the Northwest and Midwest battlegrounds; Bush is struggling with a gender gap and a slight undecideds problem. Each is trying to lure a constituency to the polls - Gore the poor, Bush the young - that has never bothered to show up before...
...that the rock album is a rarity in today's pop-obsessed culture: one band-name registration outfit on the internet reports more than five million separate entries from around the world, many of which are bands that have already succumbed to the lure of producing an album. Record stores grow amoebae-like as new releases sell alongside re-releases, old releases, indie releases, foreign releases, repackaged releases and digitally remastered re-releases. And yet the desire remains: can a rock'n'roll album be made that differs from, challenges and stands up to the innumerable LPs that have come...
...studied accounting at the University of Pennsylvania, wasn't content to run just a trading network. He's making Archipelago a full-fledged exchange this year by buying the equities arm of the Pacific Stock Exchange. This means that Archipelago will list companies on its own and try to lure blue chips away from other exchanges. If Putnam has his way, Wall Street will no longer be the best route to Easy Street...
...more than you want them. Consulting firms and investment banks are in heavy competition with one another and depend on attracting name-brand college graduates to bolster their reputations. They don't offer obscene starting salaries because they're naturally generous people: That money is there to lure you away from teaching, public service, or continuing your education...
...move brings the world-famous Radcliffe Publishing Course to the campus of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and represents a major coup for Columbia, which has worked hard to lure the program away from Radcliffe...