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...miniseries based on Clavell's novel. The pomp had a point. Both Reagan and his guest were eager to underscore the importance of ties between their two countries, which share $56 billion in trade as well as strategic links. Moreover, both wished to establish a style and rapport for more substantive talks concerning the U.S. desire for an increased Japanese defense effort, which are scheduled to take place in Honolulu next month...
...described the ship collision as "tragic" and promised to consult Japan fully on future matters of mutual concern. As the President later put it to Suzuki: "The best way to handle difficulties is to pick up the phone." The two leaders apparently managed to establish a warm, personal rapport. Said Suzuki at the White House dinner: "We were born in the same year and are both proud of being a youthful 70," though the President had a decided advantage, he noted, "being 26 days younger." Rejoined Reagan: "We have decided that hereafter our relationship would be one in which...
...whims of its experienced performers and the peculiarities of the audience and the space. At the beginning of this production, when the actors lug in part of the set, throwing out lines like. "Anybody I know out there?" and "Small house tonight," they establish a quick and funny rapport with the audience. Then the "ad-libs" cease and the show sobers up. Great--sober commedia del l'arte by inexperienced actors on the Loeb Mainstage. With the orchestra pit unaccountably retained for a handful of musicians, it feels like watching a play from the opposite side of a lake...
...company "maintains a great rapport" at many of the 500 colleges and universities where it actively recruits, Simpson said, adding. "Southwestern would very much like a good rapport at Harvard because of the quality of its students...
Intervention would ruin whatever chance the Kremlin leaders had of establishing rapport with the new Reagan presidency. The Soviets would also be throwing away what remains of detente not only with Washington but Western Europe as well. Concerted Western action was discussed in Brussels last week at the regular winter meeting of NATO foreign ministers. Quickened by the threat on Europe's own frontiers, they readily agreed to a joint response, with specific steps depending on the harshness of the Soviet action. Arms limitation talks would surely be suspended, and the West would probably withdraw from the Madrid Conference...