Word: endearing
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...that region, would have been a far better pick to shore up Bush's lagging support in the farm states. Moreover, Quayle doesn't bring Bush a crucial state and is unlikely to help him in the South. And his opposition to the plant closing notification is unlikely to endear him to the heavily industrial states of that region of the country as well...
...Sense is not a screwball comedy--rather, it is a screwball Art/Rock Concert film. If you like the Talking Heads, you will no doubt be delighted with David Byrne's huge wacky suit. If you do not like the Talking Heads, however, sight gags posing as art will not endear you to this overly long movie. No one will deny, however, the unmistakeable energy and charming enthusisasm of the Talking Heads in their film debut...
...Senate subcommittee investigating foreign payments by American corporations looked into Khashoggi's dealings. Northrop said it had given him $450,000 in bribes for Saudi generals. Khashoggi denied the allegations that he had asked for bribe money, but the accusations did not endear him to the Saudi ruling family. In 1976 and '77 the Securities and Exchange Commission attempted several times to subpoena Khashoggi as part of its investigation into arms companies. Khashoggi stayed away from the U.S. for nearly two years, but later came back to give a voluntary deposition...
...being wiser. It is appropriate too that Cage, 22, seems younger, jerkier than his girlfriend, because, being a guy, he is. With his dinky voice and fake teeth, professing ardor in a gold lame jacket or smacking the dumbness out of his forehead, Charlie can endear or exasperate. Cage's brave turn teeters toward caricature, then tiptoes back toward sympathy...
...liberal Democrats that he is a closet Republican. A critic of government entitlement programs spawned by Democratic lawmakers, Babbitt proposes that most government benefits, from Social Security to farm subsidies, be "means tested." That idea, even when coupled with a pledge of support for the family farm, did not endear Babbitt to some of Iowa's hard-pressed growers, whose middle-class life-styles depend on government subsidies. Said one, Jon Malloy of Essex: "I'm impressed with his intelligence and his ideas, but I'm not comfortable that he would give us the help we need right...