1.   As a football coach, Nick Parry understands the lure of football.

2.   Dr. Bob Lefavi, a professor of health science at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Ga., said he understands that lure.

3.   Hill understands the lure of professional athletics more than most.

4.   Holyfield understood the lure of more money but is perplexed by the manner in which Brooks broke the news to him.

5.   I understand the lure of separatism.

6.   It is easy to understand the lure that brought the Piotrovskys to their jobs.

7.   N.R. Narayana Murthy, an engineering graduate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, was one of the first to understand the lure of Bangalore.