That helped to win over even the least Chardonnay-friendly friend: "These are better values than white Burgundy, " he proclaimed.

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The American government put in a friendly word (Bill Clinton's friend, Vernon Jordan, has since become a senior adviser to Shinsei) and the Japanese were persuaded that a serious effort would be made to rebuild the bank (it may have helped that the adviser to the Japanese government was, er, Goldman Sachs).

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That said, Gary Megson is a good friend of mine so I'd like to see Bolton survive, and I'm quite friendly with a few of the Reading players, and I also like Fulham...

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Players can choose to build friendly relationships with other cities or form an intense rivalry through a dynamic and ever-evolving friend and foe system.

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