Word: rapport
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Moreover, that black power has been effectively used. Young has developed a rapport with the city's long dominant white businessmen, including Henry Ford II, and persuaded them to pour millions of dollars into revitalizing the downtown area. Because of the riverfront Renaissance Center and other new convention facilities, Detroit will be the host of such major events as the Republican National Convention in July and share with nearby Pontiac the glories of holding football's 1982 Super Bowl. A downtown that was deserted by 6 p.m. a few years ago now bustles with normal nighttime traffic...
According to "Doc" Humes, one of the founders of the clinic, to accept money for a massage is to violate "the rapport that develops in the release of anxiety tension...
Carter needed no urging about Muskie. He has long admired the Senator and briefly considered him as a vice-presidential running mate in 1976. As chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Muskie had worked hard on behalf of the President's programs. The two men developed a personal rapport, something that the President has found hard to establish with many of the leading Senators. Said Campaign Director Robert Strauss, who wanted the job himself: "Muskie was Carter's first and only choice. The President felt Muskie's judgment was good, his mind tough, and he thought Muskie could balance...
Walden said he expects negotiations to proceed smoothly from now on. "Powers has a good rapport with the negotiating committee at this point," he said...
...with modern poets and her excitement over their work combine to make Part Of Nature, Part Of Us an accessible collection of reviews--for both the neophyte and the connoisseur. However, the salient aspect of her work lies in its expression. Vendler has not only developed an almost singular rapport with many of these poets, attending to diverse structure and form, but she has learned how to cull her provocative thoughts from what Keats would call a "teeming brain...