He added that he also needed to review a proposal in writing before endorsing the initiative.

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Instead, it works hard to get community members to come up with their own project ideas and helps guide them through the proposal-writing and implementation process.

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This is what it feels like to be stuck writing a proposal.

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Since he understands the product better than anyone else in the company and he has expressed an interest in helping the company grow to the next level, you ask the CTO to take the lead on writing a proposal for the contract and making sure it gets delivered to the procurement officer in six weeks.

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For Maria, that meant writing up a proposal for an accelerated math class, roping in 31 other students to take part, and then literally begging the principal to find the funding.

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The hints about a Saudi peace initiative ( there is, at this writing, no actual proposal, only hype, speculation and undeserved plaudits ) have had the effect of giving its Prince an overnight diplomatic makeover worthy of Machiavelli.

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Jake McGuigan, a spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which is based in Newtown, said he wouldn't comment on the proposal until he saw it in the writing, but he questioned the mechanics of a registry for magazines.

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She said the council was writing to the government urging it to support a Scottish Natural Heritage proposal to protect what it designated as "wild land".

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