21.   One of the biggest beneficiaries of the move to public capital is the Milan Stock Exchange, which has crusaded across Italy trying to lure companies to list.

22.   One company was lured to another state by a generous package of land and tax breaks.

23.   Politicians and business leaders in other states still are eager to lure companies to their regions.

24.   Several other states, including Rhode Island and Connecticut, recently passed tax laws designed to lure mutual fund companies from Massachusetts.

25.   Several universities were trying to lure the company, officials said.

26.   So far, the Australian exchange has lured few companies from Hong Kong or Singapore.

27.   Still, companies could be lured by the larger, more familiar and better-financed Nymex if it launches its own Western contract.

28.   That center has spent much of its energy luring biotech companies from elsewhere to either move headquarters or do their manufacturing in North Carolina.

29.   The Belfast City Council and community development groups here have also signed on in the effort to lure software companies to establish support offices here.

30.   The combination could allow the two exchanges to lure companies with more global heft.