Word: cordials
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...party's victory in court. While it forms no part of the charges, many suspect that Ibrahim's gomlokiya wisecrack did him in. That may seem odd, since the President has laughed at the notion that his son is a pharaoh-in-waiting, and the professor has been on cordial terms with the First Family. Ibrahim taught Mubarak's wife and both of the couple's sons, and has served as an occasional unpaid consultant to the presidency. "I have a lot of regard for him," Ibrahim says...
...very cordial and welcoming. Very celebratory," said Anne Taylor, vice president and general counsel to the University...
...thus, in an early-morning meeting whose minutes we will never read, came the first big test of Bush's vaunted people skills. One of the hallmarks of Bill Clinton's unparalleled economic run was his cordial relationship with the Fed; Bush would be wise to follow that lead. Yet the first thing he's bringing Greenspan is a plan to rock the boat...
...gate agent might be the worst thing you can do. "Gate agents," says a former airline executive, "are processors, not problem solvers." Instead head back to the ticket counter, where the personnel tend to be less harassed and more knowledgeable, and have access to better information. Try to be cordial; if the airline reps get snippy, ask to see the airline's on-site customer-service manager. That's the top of the complaint food chain, the person who can make your life pleasant or merely bearable...
...special election to replace the sheriff. He fared poorly at the polls. Four months later, he tried again and got only a fraction of the votes, losing to Sidney Dorsey, an Atlanta homicide detective who became the county's first black sheriff. The two men had a cordial relationship, but that turned when Derwin announced he was again running for sheriff. The moment television-news cameras caught jail inmates working on projects for Dorsey's wife, Derwin went on the offensive, all but calling Dorsey a crook during campaign stops...