Word: gentlemanly
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...CEOs, having turned one of the world's most nonessential consumer products into a money spinner with annual sales of $18.5 billion. "No one loved the Coca-Cola company more than Roberto," said Berkshire HathawayCEO Warren Buffett, a Coke board member. "He was a great leader and a great gentleman...
...affability. Khashoggi described his sister's son as "very quiet about life...a nice polite man, very courteous." Says a close friend: "He was with this one and that one, but he was very nice with them... Even when the story ends, he was very nice, acting like a gentleman...
Romance was therefore a dangerous pursuit. "Well," she said in 1995, "I mean, any gentleman that's been past my door, we've instantly been put together in the media, and all hell's broken loose, so that's been very tough on the male friends I've had and, obviously, from my point of view...
...This gracious donation by this gentleman has started us thinking about other ways to improve the building," Wentzell said...
...know what kind of Stepford time warp Ferguson lives in, but here in Vermont, the guy who services our office computer network drives a minivan; so does the gentleman who maintains the brochure racks in my office, and my caterer and contract furniture supplier. Not a housewife among them. Minivans are practical vehicles that can haul other things besides runny-nosed kids, flea-bitten dogs and henpecked husbands. Sport-utes can't match them for practicality and cargo or passenger space, the price is right and, frankly, a minivan will never be mistaken for the extension of macho man that...