However, in recent months there have been signs of a closer relationship between the two.
How have you used to social tools to cultivate a closer relationship with your employees and customers?
Second, even external investors in private firms tend to have a much closer relationship with the manager and company.
Analysts have been predicting that Mayer's old ties with Google might eventually lead to a closer relationship with Yahoo.
They have, he points out, many advantages over fixed-line operators with stronger brands and a closer relationship with their customers.
It shows that large majorities of people in most post-Soviet states prefer a closer relationship with Russia than with the United States.
He or she will ask more probing questions over a wider range of issues and generally have a closer relationship with you than an investment manager.
This closer relationship also complicates America's diplomacy in Asia.
The idea is to make it easier for customers to work with Cisco, bringing it in closer relationship to existing businesses at a time when others in the market are making a lot of new offerings.
As journalists, we distance ourselves from our subjects to avoid biases and to maintain objectiveness, but the focus of our class is centered on narrative journalism, which allows the reporter to establish a closer relationship with the people we interview.
China, of course, needs raw materials for its own value-adding industries: hence the fears of some Latin American trade unionists, and industrialists, that a closer relationship with the Chinese will simply help them to compete in the world market in manufactures.
And Caldwell, at the same time, also didn't suggest why the Iranians would want to support the Sunnis with weapons that could very well be used against the Shiites - Shiite civilians or Shiite militia - where the Iranians have a much closer relationship to the Shiites.
What is at stake in Bosnia are some important and concrete American interests: revitalizing NATO, ending a war that could spill out beyond the borders of Croatia and Serbia, establishing a closer relationship with the Russian military, demonstrating that we are both willing to use our military power and skillful at employing it in non-combat missions.
The closer the relationship, the more the betrayal of that relationship is perceived as wrong.
In doing that, in this endeavor, I think a closer transatlantic relationship will be important.
The far closer working relationship between the Foreign Office and the Quai d'Orsay established in 1991 with the break-up of Yugoslavia has meant that the old scars from the failed collaboration over Suez in 1956 have largely healed.
Americans love to date, while a good amount of the world wants a business relationship closer to a marriage.
FORBES: American Business Needs To Shed Its Paper Tiger Reputation
This FT article gives a flavour of the diplomatic and military unknowns out of a closer Russian-Cypriot relationship.
As a result, it seems plausible that they would be vulnerable to people who imagine their relationship is closer than it really is.
FORBES: Stalking Statistics: Will Facebook make them better or worse?
And the two countries work together on many world issues at the United Nations, says Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico's ambassador in Washington, who says the relationship is closer than at any time in the past 15 years.
His view is that better banking from an economic and moral perspective requires bankers to have a closer and more personal relationship with customers - and this could be achieved both by forcibly turning an RBS or Lloyds into a set of German-style regional banks, and by regulatory reform that would make it easier for local banks to flourish.
"It was closer ideologically and warmer personally than any relationship between any other British prime minister and any other American president, " Smith said of Reagan and Thatcher's friendship.
Your relationship with your customers is closer.
FORBES: Airing Political Views May Cause Self-Employed to Lose Hard-Earned Clientele
Our countries have common traits to deepen our affinities amongst our peoples, to make our friendship ties even closer and more meaningful and everlasting, a relationship that is based only on formal agreements amongst governments.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama, President Rousseff Meet in Brasilia
The relationship will also allow GoPro to be closer to Asia and spread to untapped markets.
FORBES: Foxconn CEO Terry Gou On His Company's Growing Relationship With GoPro
The relationship between Lebanon and Syria grew significantly closer from May 1991, when the two countries signed a bilateral treaty.
BBC: News | Middle East | History of Israel's role in Lebanon
In fact, while Mr Brown still harbours ambitions to become prime minister (he is hardly unique in that respect), his relationship with the prime minister is nevertheless a lot closer than many other chancellors have enjoyed.
The closer ties with Dell, though, could poison Microsoft's relationship with HP, the largest PC maker, and other manufacturers that buy Windows and other software.
Under the organization's new policy on closer personal relationships in the workplace, a supervisor who has an intimate personal relationship with a subordinate must report that relationship to the ethics adviser, his or her supervisor or the human resources department "to seek resolution of potential conflict of interests and workplace fairness concerns, " the new standards say.
CNN: Ex-IMF chief granted bail amid sexual assault allegations
应用推荐