handshake

The research is based on a concept similar to the "six handshake rule."

Most skipped the formality of a handshake, going in for hugs.

He agreed to the deal not with a handshake, but with a few words tapped out and fired into cyberspace.

CEO Albert Bourla and Chris Klomp, head of Medicare, who was leading negotiations for the administration, had met in Washington and reached a handshake agreement on the contours of a drug price deal.

She remembers the “thousands of handshakes and hugs and home-cooked meals” and nights spent sleeping on floors.