1.   The banks are offering special low rates in an attempt to entice prospective customers.

2.   Goods are framed and displayed to entice the customer, and shopping becomes an overtly symbolic event.

3.   And digital allows companies to entice customers with all sorts of new services, each one with a price tag attached.

4.   Another reason deadheads are brought aboard, Implom said, is to increase the fish counts, which landings use to entice customers.

5.   As the carnage stacked up, several companies, especially retailers, abandoned the heavy discounts, free shipping and other gimmicks they had used to entice customers.

6.   Automakers, like many retailers, are resorting to year-end discounts to entice customers into showrooms.

7.   Airlines were offering double and triple miles to entice new customers, and as a baseball reporter, I had earned a bushel of miles that summer.

8.   But in trying to entice customers with lower rates, Oxford understated how many of its members were using network doctors, he said.

9.   But smaller companies wanting to entice customers with blockbuster contests have to find another way.

10.   Cable and phone companies looking to entice new customers for high-speed services could subsidize much or all of a new PC in return for a multiyear commitment.