Word: awkwardness
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...offered one advantage key to saving publishing: every device can connect to a high-speed data network, virtually anywhere, and download books and periodicals easily and cheaply. I've grabbed books on demand from my bed, bath and beyond, and that more than compensates for the gadget's awkward interface...
...treat them. "Most people say nothing, most people are afraid of you," says Damian Birkel, a career counselor and founder of the nonprofit Professionals in Transition, which provides services to the unemployed. "For someone to come in and offer any type of support during what is the most awkward and embarrassing time you're going to have - that is a courageous...
...such awkward moments did little to overshadow a beginning for the Obama White House that has been mostly on track. From the Inaugural Address itself, Obama and his staff have worked to mark a sharp change in policy from the Bush Administration, with a tightening of rules on ethics, interrogation policy and detention policy. Obama also began holding daily economic briefings with his advisers, much like the national security briefings that every President receives at daybreak. "He felt it was important that each day he receive the most up-to-date information as it relates to the economy," Gibbs told...
...relief during World War I, had long since been tarnished by his refusal as President to countenance direct government assistance to victims of his own country's Depression. After the Inauguration, Hoover and Roosevelt would never meet again. Their shared ride down Pennsylvania Avenue traversed an endless mile in awkward silence. At the Capitol, 100,000 onlookers had assembled under pewter skies, their numbers swelled by millions of expectant radio listeners...
...might think the current economic crisis would put etiquette expert Peggy Post out of work. Who cares about niceties when millions of people are losing their job? But the recession has given rise to an epidemic of foot-in-mouth disease, with incidents ranging from the awkward to the deeply wounding. For example, how do you ask a co-worker if she survived the layoffs, or turn down a relative's request for a loan? "Being respectful and considerate is always important, especially in these trying times," says Post, the great-granddaughter-in-law of etiquette guru Emily Post. (Watch...