Meanwhile, Governor Romney is trying to endear himself to the fossil fuel industries.

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He did not endear himself to George Bush by switching his support to John McCain during the Republican presidential primaries.

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He followed legendary coach Woody Hayes but did not endear himself to the stakeholders at OSU. He was dumped, never to coach at that level again.

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Stanford, the extrovert Texan billionaire who arrived at Lord's by helicopter to negotiate arrangements for his Twenty20 tournament with the England and Wales Cricket Board, did not endear himself to the England players.

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He has also taken the trouble to endear himself to the Vatican (and to the Christian Democratic group within the government coalition) by these days going more often to mass and by remarrying, in church, his strong-minded journalist wife.

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