You could shack up in a dank apartment or chain hotel room when your job or your family vacation beckons you abroad.

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Hard work beckons if you want a book deal.

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When he invites you to share his lunch with him, he beckons one of his assistants to mix an extra packet of chocolate protein powder with warm water in a Dixie cup.

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You'll be greeted with a plush, bright bed flanked with a bamboo headboard that beckons with a view of your flat-screen television.

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