Word: courteousness
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Marla King, Harvard Yard Operations Manager of Academic Buildings, said the University's policymakers have no formal policy regarding smoking outdoors, but they do want people to be courteous...
School officials say while the new cell phone policy is not a ban, it is a request that students be more courteous by either turning the phones to vibrate mode or talking outside...
...students will turn off their phones in classes," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "After three went off at a freshman-week parents panel, and another went off in church at a funeral I was at...I do think it is worth remembering that it is only courteous to silence one's phone in such settings...
...Woods, that means being courteous to those who demand his time, without pretending to relish the interaction. In conversation, he fixes a hard stare on others in the room, allowing questions to unspool in full before he launches into a response. The approach was honed by Woods' father Earl, who gave his son his first lesson in handling the media when Tiger was four: "Answer the question, and tell the truth." It's a technique that stresses directness, not warmth...
...tends a flower garden--a pastime handed down by his mother--and readily accepts his responsibility as a role model. He's single, but he doesn't run with a bar-hopping pack. During the season, he lives west of Boston, drives himself to the ballpark and is unfailingly courteous to fans and free with autographs. During the winter, he's home in the Dominican Republic, working out four hours a day or busy with another project at the church-and-school complex he built for his impoverished hometown, Manoguayabo. "I like to be better," he says, and he means...