1.   By the end of the year, MTV began wooing the company, and the deal closed in February.

2.   European town governments, with depleted coffers and high unemployment, are wooing these companies with incentives.

3.   It has aggressively wooed other companies that are developing new drugs, asking to let Pfizer help sell them.

4.   John Hatsopoulos noted that patience has paid off before when Thermo Electron wooed other companies and it may work again.

5.   Medina said it became apparent about five years ago that the pharmaceutical industry was going to globalize and that his agency has been wooing companies still based offshore.

6.   That has not stopped BDO from wooing companies from Andersen.

7.   To be sure, it is the job of investment bankers to find and woo companies that are preparing to sell shares to the public.

8.   While Karnataka Chief Minister Deve Gowda has been strenuously wooing foreign companies, his party has been taking potshots at them.

9.   Each city offered millions of dollars in tax breaks and other incentives and enlisted the help of sports stars and business leaders to woo the company.

10.   Exchange officials woo foreign companies on frequent overseas trips.