Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...establishes a rapport with the students from the very outset so that everyone gets encouraged to contribute to discussions--it's very clear teaching is important to him and it translates into a great deal of concern for his students," Rosenbaum said...
Long Ride. As Kissinger pondered himself and the world, he would occasionally chuckle, seemingly still unable to believe who he was and where he had been, but still relishing his long ride at the top. "How in the world would a middle-aged Jewish professor find this rapport with the American people?" he asked, and then answered his own question. "There is a basic goodness in the American people... In all my time there was never one letter asking, 'Why should an s.o.b. with a German accent tell us what to do?' In no question period did anybody...
...informed and how he wants to exercise sanctions over CIA operations. Once that is established, the director must not deviate from the rules that are laid down. He must do exactly the same with the appropriate groups in the Senate and House. He has to establish a rapport so that they will have confidence they are being told the whole story and told in advance. Then it would no longer be necessary for other committees to be informed, and they would respect the fact that matters of a confidential nature must be kept confidential." If CIA secrets are shared...
...Director and later turned out a widely read series of critiques on the budget for the Brookings Institution, knows his way around Washington as well as anyone else in the Administration. Also, though he and Carter knew each other only slightly before the campaign, he has developed a remarkable rapport with the President. Economists who have attended meetings with both say they have rarely seen two men take to each other so instantly and completely. Says Joseph Pechman, a member of TIME's Board of Economists: "There is this chemistry. The President listens more intently when Charlie talks...
Lowest Point. Schultze will need his rapport to maintain a grip on policy. Over the years, the CEA's power has fluctuated wildly according to the performance of its chief and his relationship with the President. Chairman Leon Keyserling so angered Congress by his partisan support of Truman Administration policies that President Eisenhower let Congress put the council out of business briefly in 1953. Walter Heller played a dominant role in shaping the economic policies of the Kennedy and early Johnson Administrations, but President Nixon listened far more to his Treasury Secretaries, George Shultz and John Connally, than...