He was easily wooed away by Fairchild, in San Jose, Calif.

Still, he acknowledged, Likud is keeping in close touch with its 60 supporters, to make sure they are not wooed away.

If an author can earn really big money, she usually can be wooed away by a big publishing house.

Maybe so - provided those people are not wooed away by City Island, that Bronx area near Orchard Beach.

But such "first look" arrangements rarely translate into films because actors can be wooed away to other studios by good scripts.

The next year, Mr. LeMay was wooed away to become chief executive at Waste Management, the waste disposal giant.

Thomas F. Herlihy, formerly the head of aircraft and railway equipment finance and leasing at Citicorp, was wooed away to head the venture last month.

Almost opposite is the hot sulfur bath where aches and pains can be wooed away by mud packs.

Dr. Seuss, who had by then been wooed away by Bennett Cerf at Random House, was hailed as the "Grimm of our times."

He made them an offer for it, and for a while plied the surplus premium business, until he was wooed away by a maker of teddy bears.