Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seat for the first time. The outcome of the talks could well be shaped by how well Larry and his relatively untested team relate to the union chiefs. Steelmen remember that management's bargaining team in 1959 was also unseasoned, and its failure to reach a rapport with union men was a prime cause of the 116-day strike that year...
...THINK I'd like to see more rapport between older black writers and younger black writers. I think the publishing industry has had us in such a bag-you know, we're gonna give you this as an advance, but you don't tell lob how much you got cause we didn't give him this much. And the critics like Jimmy Baldwin, but they hate Ernie Gaines, and it'd be a disaster if them two cats got together. And all the rest of that, which is nonsense. I mean, you view the white literary establishment: Styron, Roth...
...person protagonist. The pseudonym was eventually carried over to a monthly detective-story magazine, a long-lived radio program and a television series. All told, including short-story anthologies, Ellery Queen enjoyed book sales of 125 million. Keeping their writing methods a Queenlike mystery, Lee and Dannay developed such rapport that they were able to confound and amuse interviewers by completing each other's sentences...
...Soviet Union's ambitions on Southeast Asian oil are unclear, though it is obvious the Soviets are trying to develop more rapport with Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia...
...rare needle. In his 30 years on Broadway, Cohen has developed an unusually cozy rapport with his stars. He publicizes them lavishly, respects their artistic judgments, and is an all-round problem-solver. When Cohen's 1964 Hamlet, Richard Burton, and his wife wanted tickets to the Frazier-Ali fight, they naturally rang up Alex (he got them a pair, but they didn't go). "How do you treat a star?" asks Alex. "Like a star." That is a little difficult at the Tonys where everyone is a star. He can provide them all with limousines...