Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because it involved chopping down trees, building fires, getting dirty and being outdoors--things that I liked to do. The program also had a moral component, most obvious at the start or end of troop meetings, when we recited the Scout Law: "A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent...
...Customers are the reason for our being," according to the stated mission of HDS written in 1991. "Students are the primary focus of our business activity....we understand the importance of courteous, attentive service that accommodates the varying needs of the members of the campus community...
...above the terminus of the No. 64 bus, a line infamous for pickpockets. Each morning he sets off on foot at a brisk pace, crossing over cobblestones to arrive at 9 a.m. at the palazzo that once bore the title of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. Soft-spoken and courteous, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 66, looks too benign to be an inquisitor. But his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Roman Inquisition's latest incarnation, and as the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, the Cardinal stands in direct succession to the persecutors of Galileo...
...caught the thief outside Yenching Restaurant and gave me back my wallet. I realized half-way through the arrest that "the police" were not Cambridge Police, as I had expected for a theft in the Square, but the familiar HUD officers. The police response was quick, efficient, and courteous to both me and the thief--in short, everything I had always expected, and experienced, from...
Soika was happy to help Abouhalima stay in Munich. In return, she got a provider who was tall, courteous and confident. It wasn't love exactly, but Mahmud's traditional values appealed to Soika. He prayed five times a day and avoided alcohol. He brought her flowers on her birthday. And he insisted that she quit her job and devote her time to cooking and caring for the home. "He was always polite and friendly," recalls Soika. "He was never violent, never aggressive...