Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion) has become the king of the retail market by selling computers through its chain of 4,798 Radio Shack stores in all 50 states. Tandy Chairman Roach, 48, an outgoing Texan, makes unexpected visits to about 200 stores a year, helping ensure that Radio Shack employees offer courteous and knowledgeable service. Roach's latest mission is to keep business customers happy with machines like the new $2,599 Tandy 4000, while he pumps up efforts in the educational market...
...senior, North was not voted "most likely to succeed," but "most courteous" and "nicest looking." He is remembered by some as being perpetually well-groomed, even fastidious, never going anywhere without a comb in his pocket. "When Larry walked into the room, you knew it," recalls Thomas Gibbons, his former English teacher. "He had an air of self- confidence...
Soft-spoken and unfailingly courteous, Powell originally doubted whether he would like being on the Supreme Court. When Richard Nixon nominated him in 1971, he had been a successful Richmond trial lawyer for 34 years and past president of both the American Bar Association and the American College of Trial Lawyers. He said at the time, "I would rather play than umpire." But he came to enjoy his work. Asked at his farewell press conference to name his "best moment" on the court, Powell declined but volunteered, "Today is one of the worst...
...tone, courteous but tough, characterized most of the exchanges during Chirac's three days in Moscow. To some extent the Soviets appeared determined to play down the visit, largely because of France's expulsion last month of six Soviet officials on charges of spying on the Ariane rocket program. The Soviets retaliated in kind. Nonetheless, Chirac had an unscheduled encounter with Physicist Andrei Sakharov and a long meeting with Gorbachev that left the Premier enthusiastic about the General Secretary's reforms. On arms-control issues, however, Chirac retained his skepticism about Moscow's double-zero proposal to eliminate medium...
...unfailingly courteous man, Bush sometimes seems to spring from another era. When he meets people, he pulls his feet together and deferentially drops his head. Even the flustered moral indignation he displays under attack has an old-world quality. He is not self-pitying, and the business of getting even -- a favorite pastime of other politicians -- does not interest him. "There isn't a bitter bone in the guy's body," says an old congressional friend...