Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they were not necessarily failures from the point of view of Nixon's foreign policy. A high ranking State Department official feels that in general Agnew has handled himself well. "He is courteous and articulate. He understands and reflects nuances. He has always been able to establish rapport with leaders of foreign governments." Though Agnew has gone out of his way to defend the colonels in Greece, the official feels that there, too, the Vice President carried out the orders he was given. But Agnew does not always perform so well. When he visited South Korea for the first...
...ways you have to make a living when the ranges are fenced and the mines drained. But Junior knows his limits as well. Ace couldn't raise the family, couldn't do right by his wife--who has more understanding than any of them, and a rare rapport with Junior. And, more painful than anything else, Junior knows his own limits. He is a rodeo man and that's it, better than his father only in his disillusionment, not yet in any practice. But he's made his choices, has found them suitable and sticks with them, not therefore fancying...
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...
...study, produced a more amusing insight on the rules of Hardwick's game. "I think that everything has changed in contemporars fiction," she smiles. "It's no longer a question of seduction and betrayal--there's just activity." Much of her talk was filled with a light-hearted rapport with her listeners. Gracious, delicate, charming, her Southern accent murdering a figure like Lovelace with a characteristic drawl of "ba-a-ad news," Hardwick was able to communicate much of her own personality to her audience. Always sympathetic to them, she would excuse them for not having each novel she discussed...
...give encouragement to his "city-room Weathermen," as he calls them, Winship frequently sends out "tiger notes," which invariably begin: "Terrific job, Tiger. Keep 'em coming." The fact that the editor frequently wears rumpled seersucker, odd slacks and boots doesn't hurt rapport either. Not that generational and ideological friction is completely absent. Radical Columnist David Deitch was recently removed from the Op-Ed page. Winship explained that the change was to make room for contributions from Ralph Nader and the Black Congressional Caucus; Deitch charged that the paper could no longer swallow his attacks on the Boston...