Because of its design and the atmosphere of friendly competition, Garageband manages to persuade thousands of musicians to assess one another's music.

Sixty business owners met on the weekend of Nov. 11 in California to plan how to persuade thousands of others to join them.

That price collapse, analysts said, helped persuade thousands of Peruvian coca growers to seek replacement crops.

Also for the first time, organized labor will seek to persuade and mobilize hundreds of thousands of nonunion members to vote for labor's preferred presidential candidate.

I felt that we couldn't persuade thousands of physicians to try the new drug against a well-established market leader.

Apple has a difficult task ahead in persuading thousands of retailers to change the way they stock, display and report sales for the hybrid CD-ROM titles.

While his views have enraged many people, they have also helped create the animal rights movement and persuaded hundreds of thousands to become vegetarians.

Besides a stripped-down benefits package, Maryland is planning a carrot-and-stick approach to try to persuade tens of thousands of uninsured middle-class residents to obtain coverage.

Now he is hoping to persuade thousands of Internet users to share his fantasy by connecting their computers to his environment.

Labor leaders described it as part of an effort to increase labor's visibility and to persuade thousands of New Yorkers to join the fight on the budget.