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...disarmament, human rights and various regional conflicts. But both Shultz and Shevardnadze seemed intent on moderating superpower rhetoric, even as each side blamed the other for weakening the Helsinki Accords, once considered a milestone of détente (see box). In their private conversations, they moved easily into a rapport that, as a senior Administration official later put it, "expressed the will" to make progress at the November summit, the first such U.S.-Soviet meeting since 1979. That accomplishment, said Shultz afterward, helped to make the meeting "productive." The Soviets were a bit more cautious: the private session, they said...
...Once Widowed” achieves an astonishing emotional proximity to the women’s grief. Ben-Dor claimed that the trusting relationship established early on between the filmmaker and her subjects arose from natural rapport. “When you really take interest in someone, he opens up. I was very passionately interested in their stories,” she says...
...part, Jenkins cultivates a sincere and friendly rapport with his audiences. In his stand-up routine, Jenkins jokes that his girlfriend, while breaking up with him, stated, “I resent the fact that you’re not being genuine with me—that you’re treating me like one of your audiences...
Haynes said that both the tuition reimbursement program and the NFL’s rapport with the nation’s business schools are expected to expand...
...much a part of the tour as plaid pants. "Lefty" never stops smiling, even on days that would cause most guys to smash a locker or three. After finishing in a tie for 40th at the Players championship, he dutifully signed autographs. Friends call his rapport with the fans genuine, even when the cameras aren't rolling. Says Chamblee: "When you're on tour, you'll invariably get a courtesy-car driver from the airport, and seven or eight times drivers have told me, 'Oh, I picked up Phil Mickelson last night, and you know, he could not have been...