Word: rapport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Premier is outgoing, courtly and affable. He has an irrepressible urge to press flesh; probably no other Israeli politician has shaken so many hands or bussed so many cheeks. He is aware that Rabin's last visit to the White House was flawed by the lack of personal rapport between Rabin and Carter. To prevent that kind of psychological impasse, Begin and his aides have worked for weeks discussing not only what he should say to the President but how to say it and when. Thus Begin may well arrive in Washington this week" holding substantially the same positions...
...began to hint that he had concocted the story about Raoul. Before Richard Sprague, the veteran Philadelphia prosecutor, resigned as counsel to the House Select Committee in a flurry of internecine committee bickering, Sprague interviewed Ray in prison three times. Sprague said they were beginning to develop a rapport. After these interviews, Sprague concluded that Raoul "does not and did not exist." Ray did insist, however, that he had had some help from unnamed others while he was a fugitive in Canada, Portugal and England after King's death. The notion, however, that Ray was about to reveal sensational...
...carefully-and urged heads of state and their minions to express themselves freely. "You can be blunt," she would say. "Go ahead, that's what I'm here for." Throughout her 13-day tour of Latin America and the Caribbean, Rosalynn Carter managed to establish a frank rapport with her hosts. She achieved her goal of convincing top leaders that President Carter wants to improve long-neglected relations with Latin nations...
...with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and its outspoken and sometimes ill-spoken chairman, Air Force General George Brown (no kin). Says Secretary Brown: "I've known the chairman for 16 years; there are generals who were captains when I first met them. That gives me a certain personal rapport." But the brass finds him a hard man to persuade. Says an aide: "He's not just an umpire in the building. He reaches down into the process and shapes policy at all levels...
...present, most board members are willing to attribute Carter's lapses and his efforts to get so much done so quickly to his newness in the Oval Office. They expect that in time the President will be able to establish a better rapport with his liberal constituents. Greenspan in particular notes that the President's economic conservatism is personal; many members of his Administration are far more liberal than he is, and will put pressure on him to move a bit to the left. If the President does not yield, however, the board meeting indicates that the hottest...