Righteous marketing Endorsements by churches and religious groups, Salzman has noticed, can do wonders for companies that win their approval.
He now must put forward a better list of nominees and work cooperatively with a Parliament he usually ignores to win their approval.
Mr Vajpayee has cunningly neutralised his own firebrands, winning their approval for his Kashmir diplomacy.As for the motives, these are driven by foreign policy.
Tell your more worldly guests that this drink is found in the "Bartenders' Manual" of the 19th-century bar legend Harry Johnson, and you'll win their approval.
Don't know about you, but whenever I'm around Americans, I tend to exaggerate my Britishness in a pathetic bid to win their approval.
After all the shenanigans I'd put them through in my life, trying constantly to win their approval but never doing one actual thing that might earn it, I finally succeeded far beyond their expectations.
In several previous mergers between mobile-phone companies regulators have required the merging businesses to sell wireless spectrum, network infrastructure and other assets in some local markets to win their approval.
Apollo has said that it will negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with the steelworkers, which could win their approval, but that this will mean paying a lower price for Cooper.
Anthem and WellPoint, which were pioneers in the move to convert Blue Cross plans around the country to for-profit companies, had spent months in intense negotiations with Mr. Garamendi and Ms. Ehnes to win their approval of the merger.
Yesterday, however, Vivendi executives said that the companies were in discussions with regulators over how to win their approval and that the companies were confident that the sale would be completed by the end of the year.
