The licensing business, more than any other part of its operations, has created temptations because of its fast growth during the past 5 to 10 years.

Mega-packages of food can be a great deal - unless they're big boxes of junk food, creating unhealthy temptations for your family.

Even then, it remains attractive for bomb construction, creating new temptations for nuclear theft.

He resigned after the white headmaster insinuated that the presence of a pre-adolescent girl in Chiume's house might create immoral temptations.

In fact, petty crime is as prevalent here as in most other places, and the easy availability of drugs and prostitutes creates further temptations for entranced tourists.

"I personally think there is a glut, and competition for clients creates temptations," said Joan McNichol, a former president of the New York Women's Bar Association.

Large fees and bonuses created big temptations.

Fruits are beginning to dominate the dessert lists in restaurants around the nation as pastry chefs, inspired by the year-round abundance of excellent fruits, are creating intense, wildly colorful and innovative temptations.

The real lesson, argues Robert Z. Lawrence of the Kennedy School at Harvard, is that wide-open global capital markets create big risks and big temptations, leaving little margin for political opportunism in setting exchange-rate policy.