Word: rapport
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...YORK CITY MAYOR DAVID DINKINS REBUFFED CRITICISM OF his recent costly voyage to South Africa, arguing that his large entourage was developing vital business contacts. A gold-rush mentality is taking shape among many black businessmen. Dinkins, who established a warm rapport with Nelson Mandela during the South African leader's trip to New York two years ago, has lately been meeting with other African National Congress officials to discuss when the city should lift its sanctions. The move could come in two to three weeks...
...factor always fascinates me," says Roy. "Stories where a corporation or government is trying to stymie news coverage, that's a challenge, and that intrigues me, but I like dealing with the people whose lives are affected by a great drama. As a reporter you have to establish a rapport with people...
...minute that they meet, the personalities of the two protagonists complement each other. Initially, Adam has a hard time sharing his territory with a "long-haired creature," and finds her proximity to him disconcerting. In time, each learns to depend on the other. The two characters establish a congenial rapport--having agreed on the fact that they were the only two creatures who could talk--despite all their disagreements about whether something was a "pickerel" or a "swimmer" or whether Eve was "raining" or "crying...
Along with charges of womanizing, marijuana use and an alleged undisclosed Vietnam War draft notice, Clinton has suffered perhaps equally damaging criticisms about his polished campaign skills. It is his uncanny public rapport, some say, that causes voters to doubt the substance behind the frontrunner...
...have had a few guards over the years who have really developed a rapport with kids. Horace has a way with kids," says Muir...