It is also widely used by criminals, so it is a tempting target for law enforcement.
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Firstly, people who have lent to the government before have learned a lesson: that it is indeed very tempting for a government to inflate their way out of such debts.
It is a tempting notion for small businesses struggling with the tax increases and spending cuts imposed by Mario Monti's technocratic administration in an effort to reduce the budget deficit.
Now it is tempting to view her preference for a smaller Australia as emblematic of her troubled leadership.
It is tempting to blame Nicos Sampson for all of Cyprus's misfortunes but a neutral observer could find other culprits.
It is tempting, but wrong, for the traditional mainstream media (which includes The Economist) to belittle this sort of thing.
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It is tempting to blame Bill Clinton for Ms Boxer's decline.
But Republicans must understand that, while this is tempting, it is a recipe for repeated electoral defeats.
As the new year dawns it is tempting to go through my posts for the last year and attempt to extract meaning from their randomness.
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But it is tempting to offer a third reason for Mr Fabius's summons: that Mr Jospin thinks he will be less of a threat inside his cabinet than outside.
In an era of consumerized IT and packaged software solutions, increasingly delivered as a service from the cloud, it is tempting to think that vendors can be a good source for your IT strategy, relegating the CTO role to a sideshow.
As the numbers grow - the park is hoping for almost 4, 000 visitors this year - it is tempting to see the steady rise in tourism as another sign of increasing stability in DR Congo, where the economy is likely to grow by 6.5% this year.
The first scenario is tempting for some, because it would temporarily ease tensions, but in the long run it makes the third scenario more likely and much more lethal.
It may, therefore, be tempting for a firm to find a new area to produce in which it is less competitive: even if it ends up doing better as a result, the outcome for the economy as a whole could be less competition, less innovation and lower growth.
Given the huge demand for flights at Heathrow, it is tempting to think that it is the most sensible place to add new runways.
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From their barrel-like structure, it is tempting to think that vaults could serve as containers for other molecules opening up into flowers when their cargoes need to be released.
Being on the science team, however, out of contact with the people who are controlling the mission, it is tempting to consider how some of the science intended for the mission might be salvaged, in the event that the Roscosmos controllers succeed in recovering the spacecraft, but only partially.
It is tempting to dismiss this trite formulation as a meaningless excuse for inaction.
And when doing these sorts of look backs it is always so very tempting to pick something that has just happened for it burns more brightly in the memory.
Even if it is a fading symbol of Chinese society, the bicycle remains a tempting metaphor for its economy.
It is tempting to credit the standard retailing virtues of good execution and a deeper understanding of the customer for this success, but the truth is far more enlightening.
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It is tempting, at the turn of the decade, to hand out such accolades - but as an impetus for the imagination, says Wagner, such events don't come with a sell-by date.
Because the Journal is clearly what News Corp. was after with its bid last week for Dow Jones, it might be tempting to view it as good news for beleaguered newspaper stocks.
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