Word: courteousness
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...results too: 1 in 8 employees who experience rudeness ends up leaving. The biggest surprise: the study estimates that the average FORTUNE 1000 executive spends 13% of his or her time mediating worker disputes. That translates to seven weeks a year. Maybe Mom was right: it pays to be courteous. --By Dody Tsiantar
...spent his afternoons on the basketball court, scraping and searching for an identity. He used marijuana and tried cocaine. His grades slipped. He was acutely aware of the low expectations some white people had for him. "People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves," he wrote. "Such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry...
...Amid a courteous discussion in which the candidates expressed their admiration for one another's families, Kerry turned the subject to the President's daughters...
...learned about principle, I learned about kindness, I learned about humor. Ronald Reagan was unfailingly courteous to the people around him, thoughtful to the little guy, the elevator operator, the butler at the White House." George H.W. Bush is calling up memories from his years as Reagan's political mate, Vice President and friend, a huge and profound segment of Bush's crowded adult life. Yet the only Reagan movie he could remember seeing was the football classic Knute Rockne--All American, in which Reagan starred as the legendary George Gipp (the Gipper) of Notre Dame...
...overflow room. This made the whole occasion seem even more surreal. Robert McNamara—debonair, genial and still very lucid at age 87—sat just a room away, before 700 members of the Harvard community, who, The Crimson reported, “received him with courteous applause...