Word: rapport
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...soccer, which by its very nature demands an instinctive, almost telepathic rapport between the players, it's extremely important for teams to have enough time before the start of any season to become familiar with one another...
Relations between Washington and Ottawa have actually been improving since 1982, when Secretary of State George Shultz started holding bilateral talks with Foreign Minister Allan MacEachen every three months. Colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1950s, the two men enjoyed an excellent rapport that quickly trickled down through their respective bureaucracies. "We got energized knowing that our bosses were looking over our shoulders," says a U.S. diplomat. The meetings focused primarily on trade and economic issues; though Mulroney has not yet named MacEachen's successor, both U.S. and Canadian officials expect trade barriers to fall...
...believe that the Administration has done little to discourage Pretoria's apartheid practices. On other international issues, Jackson has broken not only with Administration positions but with those of his party's leadership. During his trips abroad, for example, he contended that U.S. blacks share a special rapport with revolutionaries in the Third World since both have been victims of colonial-style repression. Some party leaders fear that such a view could lead to a fundamental rift over foreign policy along racial lines...
...with most citizens, he seems to have established an uncanny rapport, beyond political agreement or disagreement, as if he were a favorite twinkly uncle who happened to make it to the Oval Office. Not since Dwight Eisenhower has the U.S. public felt such fondness for its leader, and not since Franklin Roosevelt has any President seemed quite so relaxed about the job. Reagan's political adversaries concede his special knack for coming across as both engagingly human and larger than life. Says Robert Lent, a regional director of the United Auto Workers: "He looks good and he's an actor...
...functions till 5," he notes. "She works on her column or her play, and they get done when she says they'll be done. That is terribly depressing to someone else trying to write." However, the two of them, each the parent of three children, did achieve instant rapport on the awfulness of adolescence. "She gave me more hope than she offers her readers," Skow says. "She reassured me that all one's children do eventually grow up and leave home...