Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's success last year was due in great part to the rapport between Bobby Bauer, the captain, and Weiland. Whenever Weiland needed something communicated to the team, Bauer could do it well. He was a good mediator, and this is what Harvard needed desperately this year and never...
...first problem, and one that is completely understandable, is the lack of emotional rapport between coach Cooney Weiland and his players. This is natural. Weiland is in his sixties. He has coached Harvard hockey for two decades, and coached three Boston Bruins clubs to NHL titles before that. He played for the Bruins himself, and therein, I think, lies the problem...
...White House even went so far as to call Nixon's conversations with Pompidou "about the best he ever had" with a foreign leader. The meetings did establish an unusually good personal rapport between Nixon and Pompidou. But all the diplomatic sauce could not conceal the slightly bitter flavor of U.S.French relations. In fact, the visit seemed to underscore the differences between the two nations on Viet Nam and the Middle East...
Moveable Feast. Even with such a small group, the new rapport was important, for many of the nation's mayors have complained that the Administration has favored state governments over municipalities. Presidential Counsellor Daniel P. Moynihan gave the ten mayors the Administration's first cohesive statement of urban policies. The outline emphasized the need to adjust federal programs so that highway projects, for example, do not merely aggravate urban problems. City governments should be strengthened through consolidation with surrounding communities. Metropolitan areas, said the Administration, should equalize their services, so that, for example, inner-city schools will have...
...highest of the hurdles McGill must clear if he is to succeed at Columbia is financial. This year the university is suffering from an $11 million budget deficit. Another serious problem will be Columbia's relations with the surrounding community. Rapport was badly ruptured when Columbia attempted to put up a gym on park land, the move that ignited the 1968 riot. A considerable residue of hostility must still be dealt with. Neighborhood residents have long had reason to worry that the university might evict them to make way for expansion. Now they have an additional concern. Columbia...