Experts say that's partly a result of a sort of amenities arms race, in which schools use expensive construction projects to lure applicants.
In other areas, there are great concerns about skyrocketing rents as developers find new projects to lure higher-paying tenants.
Meanwhile, a plan to extend the cleanup from the river to its banks is being pushed by City Hall — part of an ambitious project to lure Parisians back to the river.
The C.I.A. has operated a "brain drain" project to lure Iranian nuclear researchers to the West, an effort glimpsed last year when a defecting scientist, Shahram Amiri, suddenly returned to Iran.
The administration does not talk about them much, at least publicly, but they include old-style military containment and an operation known informally at the C.I.A. as the Braindrain Project to lure away Iran's nuclear talent.
He said the county had also made the site the centerpiece of an application for another state project to lure an international biotechnology company looking for a million square feet of space.
Finally, in another enterprising project to lure consumers with comprehensive collections, Brilliant Classics has issued a 150-CD Haydn Edition: symphonies, concertos, Masses, songs, chamber works and more, compiled from recordings by some eminent artists (like the soprano Elly Ameling) and many lesser-known performers.
When asked whether it took a special project to lure her back to TV after her experience with the David E. Kelley-created legal drama, she tensed noticeably.
The Seattle native knew that it would take a truly spectacular project to lure him back to TV, and he found it in Starz and Mitch Glazer's ("Scrooged," "Great Expectations") "Magic City," a lavish, sprawling drama that takes place in Miami Beach in 1959.
But a sense of inevitability now surrounds the NFL's return as multiple privately financed projects compete to lure the country's most popular sport.
