As a soccer fan, takraw had an immediate appeal to him.

For most Americans, though, the immediate appeal is no doubt what they see in it for themselves.

"I see all kinds of problems with immediate appeals," he said.

For them, he said, the job that holds the greatest immediate appeal is selling drugs.

However, Nasdaq filed an immediate appeal of the ruling before the case proceeded.

But beyond any immediate political appeal, the Dole plan, his advisers said, is intended to improve the nation's capacity for economic growth.

There is an immediate appeal to this kind of material.

"The immediate appeal of Jonson is to the mind," he wrote.

Although the more involved story might not have the same immediate appeal, the truth in the end will always be far more interesting.

So George's services were needed, whether for a trial, or for an immediate appeal.