Word: courteousness
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...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...
While relations between controllers and pilots usually remain professionally courteous, there are subtle tensions between the two groups. Christine West, a controller hired just after the strike, works in the New York radar-control facility. West is proud that "we do pretty close to twice the amount of work with half the staffing we had before the strike." But she is critical of many pilots. "We have their lives in our hands, but they relate to us like we were the enemy," she says. "It can be stressful when you're taking insults on a frequency and you have...
...ever run such a complicated, clandestine operation alone. Those who knew North from the U.S. Naval Academy and Viet Nam were not so sure. Wherever he was, they said, he seemed to make things happen. Born in Texas, North was raised in upstate New York and was voted most courteous in his graduating high school class. He decided that the Marine Corps was his calling and eventually won a place at Annapolis. While at the academy, he became the brigade welterweight boxing champion but hungered for a sterner kind of battle. He got his wish. Sent to Viet...
...practiced Boston driver is unsuited for traffic elsewhere. A Bostonian confessed that the horror of Boston driving is so universal that it's like breathing: you almost cease to notice. When he was in Alabama recently, the drivers there seemed to him unbelievably courteous, deliberate and careful. It got on his nerves. "Why don't they drive?" he asked his wife...
Compared with the New York City subways or the dark alleys of Mexico City, the streets of Managua are remarkably safe. Police are courteous, and people feel free to come and go, anywhere, day or night. At government-hosted "Face the People" forums, citizens bellyache about everything from food shortages to the draft without fear of reprisal. Moreover, the country has an array of political parties, church groups and civic organizations from which to choose. In comparison with many East bloc countries, Nicaragua is not the "totalitarian camp" of which President Reagan speaks...