Word: graciousness
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...tried to be very cautious about acting as though I was already the President, so I've not met with any ambassadors or any foreign leaders, although I've had a lot of invitations. And I don't believe any President could possibly have been more gracious or more firm in his commitment to an orderly transition than President Ford has been. I really do appreciate it, and it's been a great service to the country, I believe. He could have just been polite about it, but he's been very forceful in directing...
Caustic Remarks. Yamani did not even bother to attend the final session in the conference hall. Instead, smiling and gracious, he invited TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn and a handful of other reporters to his tenth-floor suite. There, in equable tones, he delivered some surprisingly caustic remarks about his OPEC colleagues. How did he feel about breaking ranks? "Is it fair for all OPEC to get together to decide the price of Saudi crude? Is it fair for others to decide against our will?" What about OPEC arguments that a big oil hike is justified by inflation in the prices...
...Walters, but certainly would give her a good shove toward that goal. Pauley accepted, and the network announced that she would take up her duties Oct. 11. Tom Brokaw was elated: "She's bright and enterprising and engaging, and she just happens to be pretty." Barbara Walters was gracious: "It's unfair to be called the next Barbara Walters. I hope she'll be herself." Jane Pauley was. Said she: "I'm going to Indianapolis to install my two cats with my Aunt Martha...
Businessmen and workers are attracted to the South by its often gracious lifestyle, unspoiled surroundings and relatively abundant raw materials, including lightly taxed rural land. Moreover, since many of the nation's oil and natural-gas wells gush in Texas and Louisiana, energy in much of the South is less costly than in the North...
...just 40, a millionaire, world-renowned and, at the peak of his profession, a confident and gracious man. He is pale, despite the Sahara sun, but seemingly healthy. His life with Pierre Berge, his business partner and intimate of 15 years, has probably been as harmonious as most marriages. Yet beneath the patina of assurance, Yves Saint Laurent is a tortured soul, a self-avowed neurotic who is still recovering from an unhappy childhood and the trauma of his brief service in the French army (he spent two months in a solitary psychiatric cell). "Yves," says Berge, "was born with...