Word: rapports
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While Kerry and Clark are making a visible effort to climb down off their pedestals, Edwards--his professional life spent before juries as a trial lawyer--could establish rapport with a saltshaker. Where Dean's populism can sound hostile, Edwards' is sugarcoated, the mill-town boy who knows what your life is really like because he married his wife with an $11 ring. Speaking to TIME between events, Edwards recalled, "My father always said, 'I can tell if someone is talking down to me in 30 seconds.' Voters can tell that, they can sense it. The only...
...bones were damaged," Rubens, 55, reports. "She had X rays and shots, and now I have to cook her food." Rubens isn't sure whether, even if Alex took Mikey, her son's lifestyle would permit the care this exotic pet requires. "It's hard to have much rapport with a turtle," Rubens admits, "but I feel responsible for this fragile, vulnerable creature...
...prospect of a potential Jantzen-Frayer rapport also loomed large in Weiss’s decision-making process...
...small business. But others remain unconvinced. "There is this emphasis on a paper trail," says a spokesman for the FSB. "But a tick in the box doesn't mean the business is any better." Still, Gallagher remains positive. As she moves through Athenaeum House, she has a warm rapport with her residents - bending at the bedside of one and asking about the family of another. "When you're looking after people like this," she says, "you're involved in every aspect of their lives." - By Jennie James FRANCE: INFLEXIBLE FRIENDS Never mind the slumping economy, or the difficulty of running...
Since then, the musicians’ rapport with the city has been tenuous at best...