1.   And Connecticut, though hush-hush about its exact courtship strategy, is also dangling tax incentives.

2.   General Motors has been the most conservative among the big automakers in dangling incentives before consumers.

3.   In an e-mail message, one official reported that Florida was dangling incentives like mentors for each Austrian recruit.

4.   It also has dangled cash incentives to keep men and women in uniform, offering re-enlistment bonuses in a wide number of job specialties.

5.   To combat the grim numbers, Arizona school districts dangle incentives, including signing bonuses.

6.   To persuade them, the city has been dangling fresh incentives in front of foreign companies.