Long accustomed to being supplicants in the labor force, candidates for public-school teaching jobs - especially in special education, math and science - are being put in the decidedly unfamiliar position of being wooed with financial sweeteners.

The firm also hopes to lock in investment bankers by giving them chances to invest - with a financial sweetener from the firm - in new-economy companies that are still private.

THE financial sweeteners include matching state grants to small developers who utilize innovative technologies to remediate sites, as well as reimbursement for up to 75 percent of the cleanup cost.

A financial 'sweetener' was made available by the Exeter District to Torbay to help the latter to establish inpatient provision.

But the union also got several financial sweeteners, like new job categories and one-time payments, and a guarantee of no layoffs.

In addition, the new tax law offers some financial sweeteners to would-be consultants.

Those financial sweeteners begin to phase out in the 8th to 13th years.

In its 1987 search for a home for its first center, Sematech considered offers from 36 states - New York was one of the finalists - trying to top each other in financial sweeteners.

Moreover, the officials say their basket of financial sweeteners helps the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens compete well against New Jersey.

Various governments had got wind of the transaction and had been quietly trying to block it, offering various amounts of aid, trading credits and personal financial sweeteners to the Fenua Ua government.