Word: rapport
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Months ago, the White House gave up its naive notion that Clinton might establish personal rapport with Perot. For the President to attack him frontally is also futile. So the Clinton circle is studying Perot's constituency with extensive polling and focus groups, looking for ways to win over a large segment of it. The main conclusion: only when Clinton demonstrates that he can lower the deficit and genuinely reform government will he get a hearing from Perot's minions...
...meet privately, if not alone. Naruhito would propose, his quarry would demur. Volleys of phone calls from the lover followed. There were rendezvous on the imperial duck-hunting grounds. All the while, secrecy was an obsession. But one short exchange shows that the young pair were establishing intimacy and rapport. After some nervous discussion about avoiding the press, Masako- san joked to Naruhito, "Perhaps I should get dressed up in a panda suit." Some panda...
...brilliant ability to learn from the successes and failures of his predecessors. He used the Dukakis campaign as a how-not-to case study, and after the election he indicated that he would do the same with the Carter presidency. Initially, he seemed to enjoy Lyndon Johnson's rapport with Congress and Ronald Reagan's popularity among the electorate. And the first-hundred-days legislative agenda he proposed promised to rival Franklin Roosevelt's. But there is one person whose playbook he has neglected to borrow: his wife...
...closer rapport between the BSA and other minority groups would also ease competition for funding from the College, said Kim Patillo '96, who is running for the position of representative to the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations...
...emotion and improvisation, Sullivan put together a convincing dramatic collage of her own as the tough and straight-talking Madeleine, a Madeleine that is intellectually, though not emotionally, in touch with Fergus's elan. Yet despite her strong interpretation of the theme, a weakness arose with their non-spoken rapport. Sullivan's often stolid looks during Poulios's passionate monologue's seemed incongruous. Her gestures and portrayal of surprise or rage were often not very convincing...