1.   And for the first time, the company has had to use once-disdained holiday promotions to woo buyers.

2.   Automakers have tried wooing buyers with generous rebates and discounted leases along with lower prices, but sales remain soft.

3.   Bowling alleys and Jacuzzi pools are just some of the creature comforts Singapore condominium developers are now using to woo buyers.

4.   Boeing earlier this year opened a huge parts distribution and pilot training center in Beijing in an effort to woo buyers from Chinese airlines.

5.   Corporations eager to cut their borrowing costs are creating more and more novel securities to woo buyers tired of run-of-the-mill bonds.

6.   Mail-order catalog newcomer West Elm is wooing furniture buyers at the mailbox by giving them high-end design at low-end prices without the hassle.

7.   The Asian currency crisis has helped foreign small-car makers drop prices to woo Saturn buyers.

8.   The casual dining chain also added equity warrants to the sale to woo buyers.

9.   This has led to a fiercely competitive market, in which the foreigners woo affluent buyers with cutting-edge features while the local companies scrap for the mass market.

10.   Airbus and its U.S. rival, Boeing, have wooed buyers in China eagerly, at one point sending their boards of directors to meet senior leaders in Beijing.