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Atlanta officials spent years trying to lure major chain grocery stores to neighborhoods that don’t offer residents big supermarkets with fresh, healthy food.

But the lures of a settled home, among them education and healthcare, mean their way of life is changing.

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The men, aged from 20 to 39, were lured to join the mercenary forces under the pretext of lucrative contracts, the government said.

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When the social-media company issued $30 billion of bonds at the end of October, it had to lure investors with yields comfortably above those of its existing debt.

In 2014, Epstein lured a young European model with false promises of development work in Africa with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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