As AMR and its pilots once again engage in contract negotiations, the airline has made a good will gesture and operational performance has improved after a dramatic decline in September.

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The U.S. sent the Resolute back to the Queen as a good-will gesture.

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Jesse Jackson, who urged Clinton to free the Serb POWs as a reciprocal gesture of good will.

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If you do miss a payment, contact the creditor as soon as possible and ask if they would be willing to remove the late payment from your account as a courtesy and gesture of good will.

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"What he is so good at is making the right gesture at the right time, before the right audience, " says a senior executive of a rival Hong Kong company.

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Since then they have had to sharpen up their act and if it is good enough to downgrade European nations that struggle under a debt burden then in a quid pro quo gesture the US has received a shot across the bows, although we are far from a direct hit.

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Its "tax cuts for 95% of the American people" are the tax-rebate equivalent of the ancient machine-politics practice of handing out free turkeys at holiday time--nice gesture, but it does nothing to increase incentives for productive work, risk- taking and success, good things achieved by cuts in tax rates.

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