Word: manners
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...agreed, saying that in addition to the department’s other benefits, the officers “make good money.”‘NO MATTER WHAT...10 PERCENT ARE BAD’The department aims to dispel the belief that officers have a poor bedside manner, and many of the newcomers say they seek to rise above this.Jesse J. Snell of Blackstone, Mass., calls his new job a “noble profession.”“No matter what you’re doing, 10 percent are bad,” he says...
...take at least another seven to ten years for Iran to make the bomb. What is often cited by American officials as 20 years of Iranian secret nuclear military program turned out to be, as declared by the IAEA, nothing more than the failure to declare, in a timely manner, some experiments and receiving some material and equipment. Such failures to declare are not uncommon among the NPT members. Remedial steps are envisioned in the Safeguards Agreement to address them, and Iran has done so. Moreover, it was no secret that we were in the European, Russian and Asian markets...
...Officials on both sides, including Abbas and Haniyeh, have appealed for calm, and as of yet there doesn't seem to be the will on either side for an all-out confrontation. But as each side continues to blame the other for all manner of ills, smaller-scale skirmishes could well become a feature of daily life in Gaza. "The factional fighting is genuine," says Nicholas Pelham, the International Crisis Group's senior Middle East analyst. "It is still at a level where it can be contained but tensions are inflamed" - particularly in Khan Yunis - "to a point where...
...Standard of Behavior for Stanford students outside of class.Academic honor codes operate on a mutual understanding between students and faculty. In this beautifully simple and effective “I scratch your back, you scratch mine” system, students are trusted to do their own work in a manner entirely unfamiliar to most Harvard students. Professors have the convenience of distributing examinations via e-mail or other methods to their students, who are trusted to complete exams wherever they choose, outside of the watchful eye of proctors or teaching fellows. If one student finds a fellow student violating...
...topic lately due to the intelligent design debates. O’Donnell, who served as the Democratic Chief of Staff of the Senate Committee on Finance from 1993 to 1995, depicted his make-believe White House as a place to debate political issues in a manner impossible on cable news...