Word: courteousness
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Benjamin H. Brown, advisor to the Fellows of the CFIA, said yesterday he received a "courteous" letter of apology from Crocker P. Snow after Brown and Edward R.F. Sheehan, another CFIA member, sent letters to the Globe protesting Snow's actions...
...this change is an inhuman, appalling act. Most of these people have worked for the University for 12-15 years. In their regular work, they managed various facilities, came into contact with students and faculty, and developed relationships of concern with those they served. We feel that their courteous, friendly treatment of students using these facilities, and their efficient management of these different sites, have contributed to our sense of enjoyment from athletics at this University...
...over the future of the Golan Heights and Jerusalem. Jordan's King Hussein was in a frosty mood, principally because Congress has drastically chopped his request for $350 million worth of antiaircraft weaponry, including 14 batteries of Hawk missiles. In Damascus, Syria's President Hafez Assad was courteous but stiff; later Assad's Baath Party called the Sinai agreement "strange and disgraceful," and Assad pointedly refused to receive Egyptian Vice President Husny Mobarak when he appeared to explain the Egyptian view. In Israel, as she made a rare political appearance to vote for ratification at a Labor...
...figures in the governments of their adopted prisoners. White says that although officials rarely reply the first time. Amnesty keeps pestering them "until the file on a particular prisoner has grown so fat that they cannot afford to ignore it." White mentions that it is more effective to be "courteous, rational, and apolitical" than overtly antagonistic to governments. In pleading a prisoner's case. Amnesty often reminds a country of a constitution that it may be disregarding. "We try to prick their conscience," she says, adding that the embarrassing weight of world opinion usually proves to be Amnesty's most...
Phelps and Austin may be training their students more in obnoxious behavior than in assertive behavior when they tell them to ask for "50 cents' worth of gas at the filling station, then demand that the attendant wash the car windows." What is wrong with a courteous request, whatever the amount of gasoline purchased...