41.   Like earlier Brown ventures, it produces results, impresses, wins powerful friends.

42.   Meanwhile, Taiwan is continuing its pragmatic diplomacy by sending more senior officials abroad to win friends.

43.   None of this wins friends in the United States, of course not.

44.   Off the track, the bright-eyed and well-spoken young man won friends with an outgoing manner and sincerity.

45.   Parking in the front yard will not win you friends and could result in the accidental sale of your vehicle.

46.   Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., who also backs Gramm, said Dole is majority leader because he knows how to win friends and influence people.

47.   Richard Holbrooke is living proof that you do not have to win friends to influence people.

48.   Richardson courted the despots with the same rumpled, hail-fellow-well-met manner that won him friends at home.

49.   Shaun Alexander dawdled through college, driving a new car every year and winning friends by giving parties where the liquor flowed freely.

50.   She never modified her sometimes-eccentric behavior to attract record executives, mollify producers or win friends.