Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columbia Point Health Association often speaks for the clinic's opposition, though some attacks have come in the form of anonymous leaflets charging incompetence and insensitivity. The controversy reached a crisis point last spring after the then administrator, Leon Bennet-Alder, a frosty Englishman who had little rapport with the neighborhood, tried to cut costs and personnel he considered superfluous. He also attempted to fire a black business manager whom he accused of gross incompetence. Bennet-Alder became the target of threats by phone and leaflet. Then, on the way to work one morning, he was bludgeoned so viciously...
Culp and Cosby, who worked to gether on television's I Spy for three years, have established an effortless and instinctual rapport. Instead of casual, world-hopping superspies, here we have them as two weary, dreary guys whose lives are on the skids. Hick ey is estranged from his wife (excellently acted by Rosalind Cash...
...turn the same trick with even less promising raw material, Mills recently unveiled as his latest protege one Raymond O'Sullivan, 25, an Irish ex-postal clerk. His new name is-of course-Gilbert O'Sullivan. Mills admits that O'Sullivan has terrible diction, little rapport with women, and has never set foot on a stage. Despite all that, Gilbert O'Sullivan currently has the No. 1 hit single in the U.S. with Alone Again (Naturally). Last week the effusively bittersweet ballad was making the biggest sweep of Top 40 radio stations since the Beatles...
Cohen attributes his success to his rapport with customers since the start of his news-selling career: "You can't lose touch with your own business. If you watch people, you learn what they want...
...World perfectionist who approaches fencing as an art, rather than as a sport. He refuses to force his sport upon his athletes, preferring to let them find the art of fencing in their own way. He instructs, but he doesn't coerce. Consequently, there is tremendous rapport on the squad that makes participation an extension of your Harvard social-life, rather than an athletic chore...