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It's considered impolite to hand a name card to someone using one hand.
ECONOMIST: Business travel
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Kaufman was never impolite to me (more like a nod), but she certainly focused on the fellows.
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Also, not to be impolite or anything, but how expressive is a fish, until it hits a grill?
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He understood that they were people of goodwill, and he could not bear to be impolite, but the benign interest of others was a burden.
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According to a 2011 Monster.com survey, respondents reported that among their co-workers' impolite behaviors, gossiping "ticked them off, " along with texting during meetings, being too loud and leaving a mess.
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Before, 'voicing their good fortune among higher- carbon colleagues was seen as impolite, ' said Paul Bledsoe, director of communications and strategy at the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan research organization.
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