Renault, despite being lured to Portugal with wodges of public cash, left in 1996.
This year, cotton prices are the highest they have been in years, luring farmers despite strong prices for other crops.
Mr. Bo has also been scrubbed from boardrooms here, despite his success at luring multinational corporations to Chongqing and overseeing the country's highest rate of growth.
In the face of such threats, Times managers seem transfixed and distracted by a months-long debate about whether the publishers should charge online readers to access their Web site, despite failed experiments at luring readers to pay up.
Despite Hollywood's interest in luring the best Internet talent offline, some Web-savvy auteurs are loathe to lose touch with their roots.
Nor were there any so-called moderate Taliban in the audience, despite the announced hope of luring some to the conference.
Despite the high cost of luring Mr. Letterman away, CBS stands to make perhaps $20 million to $40 million a year in profit if the new show can overtake Mr. Leno's in the ratings.
Since 1968, Mayor Alioto had been luring large corporations to the city despite what critics labeled "the Manhattanization of San Francisco".
Somehow no one got round to inviting them.This despite the many officials who extol the importance of luring foreign tourists to the capital's millennial celebrations.
Japan is poised to maintain a fast pace despite a prolonged economic slump, and China is rewarding its scientific stars and luring back those currently overseas.
