1.   Indiana has sometimes spent too much on tax incentives to lure companies inside its borders.

2.   Cheap, plentiful labour is an additional factor in luring companies across the border.

3.   All this at a time when the area longs for an image of stability to lure companies here so that jobs keep pace with population.

4.   And, said Harry Swanson, director of economic development for the city of Dallas, in the past Dallas has offered tax abatements to lure companies.

5.   All have offered tax breaks and other incentives to lure the company, which plans a major expansion of its computer manufacturing business.

6.   Britain and Ireland have been criticized for offering massive corporate tax breaks as a way to lure companies to their countries.

7.   But last year the Whitman administration came back with its own initiative for luring companies to New Jersey, the Business Employment Incentive Program.

8.   Butler said Quackenbush is seeking to break the link between home insurance and quake insurance in order to lure insurance companies back to the California market.

9.   Developer SKS Investments enlarged floor plates, raised ceilings and added state-of-the-art wiring to lure Internet companies that had sprouted in San Francisco.

10.   Even with these drawbacks, strenuous efforts are under way to lure companies to Harlem, with developers trying to create new space and rehabilitate industrial buildings.