Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...correct him when she believes he has misspoken. Whether listening or speaking, she conveys nervous energy, often jiggling one leg or the other. "I fly off the handle," she admits, "but Paul is strong too." Paul, who has completed a degree in molecular genetics, is as soft- mannered, courteous and obliging as Isabelle is wired and impatient. "People who see me stimulated on ice are disappointed when they see me in reality," he says. Interjects Isabelle, not one to brook any criticism of her partner, even from Paul himself: "He's such a puppy dog off the ice, but give...
...Ever-courteous, Smith would not let even weightlifter Corporation member Judith Hope carry her heavy suitcase in windy weather...
...fact that Clarence Thomas is both black and a conservative. It is harder still to match the image of Thomas offered by Anita Hill -- of a boss who pressured and humiliated her -- with the picture offered by friends and co-workers, who portray him as a model of courteous and respectful relations with women. The bedeviling paradox that emerged last week was this: How could Thomas have been one man to the world and another to Hill...
...Bush's educational goals, including the idea of school Choice, and he is using his soft-spoken salesmanship to market them to Congress and the American public. The role is the most challenging yet for the man named by Bush as Secretary of Education last December, whose mild and courteous demeanor masks a high-octane ambition. His goal is to transform the Department of Education, which Ronald Reagan once pledged to abolish, from a backwater operation in the shadow of the Air and Space Museum into one of Washington's leading domestic agencies...
OUTSIDE THE CASTLE--While capturing for posterity the arborial bliss of the planting of Freedom Tree II, a Crimson photographer was approached by members of the Lampoon. The ever-courteous 'Poonsters generously offered to pose with the sapling: "Want a picture of us giving the tree the finger...