Word: endears
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While such a policy would do little to endear us to our trading partners, these nations already use such practices against American companies. For example, heavy European subsidies of Airbus have allowed that company to gain a hefty market share in an imperfectly competitive industry once totally dominated by American firms. A U.S. retaliation in the form of subsidies for Boeing would counteract such gains and even drive the nations that subsidize Airbus to the bargaining table, where an agreement eliminating subsidies could be worked out. This would benefit both sides in comparison to a policy where both sides subsidize...
...decision to forgive his betrayers and give up his powers. In the midst of the fantastic world created by Daniels, Freeman's Prospero gives the play a familiar and human center. Both his controlled performance and the dazzling monologues in which he faces the audience in wonder endear Prospero's character to the audience...
...wants the viewer to like these girls even as she pokes fun at them. The toughest intellectual challenge for Cher and her friends may be deciphering the Thomas Guide map of Los Angeles streets, but they have an ease and a good nature that ultimately, if at times strenuously, endear...
...should subsidize his greed," said Byatt, "simply because he has a divorce to pay for and has just had all his teeth redone." The dental work in question was done in the U.S. at a cost of $30,000, an expense that did little to endear Amis to a nation where a stiff upper lip is often an involuntary reaction to periodontal pain and government-issue dentists...
...Despite his reputation as a dispassionate analyst, the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman has at times blasted Clinton's weak performance abroad. On Haiti, for example: "We don't know what the policy is, but we know what kind of underwear ((Clinton)) wears." Cracks like that one can't endear him to the President. But Hamilton "would bring some professionalism to the amateur hour around here," says a State Department official. "If we'd changed our refugee policy on Lee's watch, you can bet there would have been some interim way of dealing with the Haitian boat people before...