Even with my policy's poor recent performance I am still only down to breakeven point and nowhere near the 30% shortfall my letters suggest.
Nobody answered my letters or phone calls.
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My cover letters needed "personality, " and my profile needed padding.
My mother wrote letters to my father in the summer she rode with the Freedom Riders, and you know, I think that even as she might have imagined such a moment, I don't know if she would have believed that it could occur in her lifetime.
It is highly unlikely a person would be in the unusual situation where they could sell stock for which they had no basis, so in my view, it would be most frequent that letters like my client received would be wrong 100% of the time.
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Not only that, "I got my first fan letters for that design, " Matsunaga recalls, clearly still delighted.
Just a few stalls down, Nathan Raab of the Raab Collection in Philadelphia cheerfully asked me about my interest in American history (plentiful), and my collection of letters and documents (non-existent).
The vast majority of calls, e-mails and letters to my office have been questions about the stimulus.
My purpose in signing letters opposing this ban was two-fold.
My conclusion: Cover letters make a difference, even short ones.
Here I am, at my computer, typing letters one by one into a plain text document, rolling along through one of the strangest posts I've ever penned for this site.
My boss-to-be was waiting with a small sign that had my name in large black letters.
"My aged heart is warmed by the lovely letters and emails I receive, especially when they tell me that my work on television inspired the writers to become artists, " Hart added.
My favorite parts have been writing letters of support to our troops in Afghanistan and collecting food, toys and bedding for the cats and dogs at the local animal shelter.
Even though my father left us when I was two years old, and I only knew him from the letters he wrote and the stories that my family told, I was luckier than most.
My mom, who is writing a memoir based on letters her dad sent back from WWII, works at the same roll-top desk my dad first used as an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in the 1980s.
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Sometimes you get letters from children: My mama or my daddy have lost their jobs, is there something you can do to help?
Last summer, before the NBA season began, my 11-year-old son sent letters, photos and SASEs to eight or so athletes he liked, asking for autographs.
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So I have a whole staff that just reads my mail, and then they give me letters that they think are really especially terrific, and I read those.
"I have written over a dozen letters to the Department of Education about my concerns but they don't seem interested, " he said.
The result was that it took my wife two years and countless phone calls and letters, to finally have her assets rolled over.
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In 2000 I argued in your pages that the drug war had failed based on my experience in Colombia in the early 1990s ( Letters, March 18th 2000).
No cumbersome exchange of letters - within 24 hours or so I had my reply, explanation and apology - see above - by dealing with the council itself rather than through an intermediary.
Then the system asked me to insert my passport so it could optically scan the special set of letters to identify me with the system and transmit the data to the Department of Homeland Security.
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One a recent trip I did go out and buy a watch but whereas I was constantly looking at my smartphone, and the time was always there in big letters when I fired it up, the watch goes largely unnoticed.
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In class, I focused on having lengthy get-to-know-you chats with the person next to me, passed notes to my people three rows over, and penned (ghostwrote) love letters for girlfriends to give to the object of their obsessions.
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Having donated to a foreign-language learning program at my sons' school, for example, I felt motivated to write letters of protest when it became threatened by the school board.
Those letters that I read every night, some of them just break my heart.
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