Word: friendlier
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...open facial expression"; "nod your head to show approval and consent"; avoid use of the insultingly familiar pronoun du. So far, about 15,000 of 30,000 postal counter clerks have taken the etiquette course. Reports a post office official: "It's going well; the clerks are really friendlier afterward...
With air travel on the rise because of the profusion of cheaper fares, FAA Chief Langhorne Bond speculates that the industry may be seeing a "new breed" of gentler, friendlier mass air traveler. Nonetheless, the bad old kind is still a problem. Worldwide, there were 31 skyjacking attempts last year, vs. only 15 in 1976. This year the number of such incidents has remained high, with 14 attempts so far, including three in the U.S.-all of which were unsuccessful. New breed or no, the FAA has extended its requirement for the screening of air travelers from just scheduled flights...
...only problem apparent in your analysis is that none of your suggestions will work. Under the present set of political rules, the fiscally responsible are soon replaced by friendlier, more generous types. The fiscally responsible may win a battle here or there, but they are certain to lose...
...time of fresh starts and bold resolutions is false." In truth that time is autumn. Popular pleasure shows itself in those hastening steps and brightened smiles encountered as the air grows nippier. Some psychiatrists have patients who grow almost alarmed at how congenial they suddenly feel. Autumn is a friendlier time...
...checking-account customers are women, although many of the accounts are small and inactive. Lourdes Rosa, 30, an office manager, frequently makes a long subway trip from her Bronx home to First Women's because the bank gave her a furniture loan and she finds its atmosphere "much friendlier than other banks...