Cash does have an allure when times are uncertain because its reported value is not impacted by the fluctuations of the market.
The limited availability of certain products -- the iPhone now, Furbies in 1998, Tickle Me Elmo in 1996 -- gives them an extra allure that increases the value of the product, Yarrow said.
Even the kitchen implements have an exotic allure.
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Some of the programs have an almost mystical allure, mainly because they are by invitation only and thus closed off to the hoi polloi.
The Stanford Group advisers who sold the CD were probably caught up in the allure of an affluent lifestyle.
Beyond the allure of an attractive digital self, models have lots of photos of themselves online that are readily available and easy to steal.
Citi is hoping the allure of an innovative product will attract customers that might otherwise have taken their card business elsewhere, giving Citi a competitive advantage in a cut-throat market.
The Harvard and Oxford-educated Bhutto had become an icon in the West, which found it hard to resist the allure of the charismatic female leader of an otherwise male-dominated Islamic nation.
Oftentimes fog descends like a veil to obscure the view, but rather than detract from its allure, the mist lends the scene an air of mystery akin to that of a Scottish loch.
In an interview with Omni in 1991, he described the allure of programs that would let you feel as if you were wandering at will inside a Moorish temple or through the chambers of a beating heart.
Market insiders also question whether an eventual U.K. downgrade would dent the relative safe-haven allure of U.K. government bonds, also known as gilts.
And if you are stuck for an evening outfit as the nights grow chillier, don't forget the allure of a simple black cashmere polo-neck with black pants, accessorized with a single long string of pearls.
The Frenchman was not the first, nor the last, outsider to feel both the allure and the vindictive sting of a modern Greece that manages in an uncanny way to be much more, and much less, than the sum of its parts.
The current alternative of carrying an iPhone or strapping an iPod to your shoulder is awkward and less functional so one can see the allure for such a device.
He conceded that the size of Microsoft's network -- and the allure to hackers of breaching Microsoft's security -- make defending its systems an ongoing challenge.
The popularity of Danish thriller The Killing - whose heroine, Sarah Lund, sported an array of knitwear, some of it snowflake-patterned - added to the garment's allure.
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