• After five months I had to do something so I started writing letters.

    BBC: Whitney Houston

  • Writing letters and thank-you notes is said to be a lost art.

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  • While in London, she desperately missed home-cooked Indian food and began writing letters to her mother asking her how to cook different dishes.

    BBC: Profile: Madhur Jaffrey

  • Everyone has noticed that more and more Republicans are writing letters for, showing up at, as the President said, ribbon-cutting activities for these projects.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • She took on every plea for help that came to her, sending food or money, writing letters, finding rooms, whatever would make a difference.

    ECONOMIST: Yelena Bonner

  • The book, available on the government court document system Pacer, was not a best seller but for Bodnar it beat writing letters home from prison.

    FORBES: Gupta's Request of a Sentence of "Probation in Rwanda" Not A Far-fetched Idea

  • The Fellowship runs several programmes including writing letters to prisoners, supporting prayer groups and raising money to buy Christmas presents for the children of convicts.

    BBC: Andy Taylor, Prison Fellowship

  • Nevertheless, they keep in touch, writing letters to each other and using Quinn (Rip Torn), the grizzled owner of a New York pool hall, as a go-between.

    NEWYORKER: Turn the River

  • You probably do because we are all writing letters.

    FORBES: Readers Say

  • 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.

    WHITEHOUSE: Anyone Can Do It

  • Ruble, who is appealing, had been accused of writing letters blessing knowingly bogus tax shelters--complicated transactions without economic substance that created massive phony losses used to offset massive taxable income.

    FORBES: Informer

  • Shih took pains to cushion the blow of layoffs, providing generous severance packages and writing letters of recommendation and personal messages to the families of those who lost their jobs.

    CNN: THE REAL WORK BEGINS

  • She took on tasks that went beyond her duty, but cemented her popularity with the soldiers by writing letters of condolence to relatives and setting up a banking system so soldiers could send money home.

    BBC: The lady without the lamp

  • "It's my job to make the arguments to these people that if they carry on writing letters, their kids are never going to get a place with a garden to bring up their grandkids, " said Mr Boles.

    BBC: Open land can solve housing shortage, says minister

  • Seniors can live longer in their homes independently because they can avail themselves of services offered by people within their time bank community, such as rides to a doctors appointment or help with writing letters to their insurance company.

    FORBES: Rethinking Money: The Rise Of Hayek's Private Competing Currencies

  • The last government originally tried to measure efficiency against a whole panoply of targets: response times, arrests and convictions, writing letters to victims, clear-up rates, time spent on the beat rather than filling forms - a huge range of measures.

    BBC: What do we value about the police?

  • His first job, in a general trading firm in Warsaw, involved him writing letters in Yiddish about the price of dry goods, but alongside this he knew a charmed existence close to nature in the wilds of north-eastern Poland, hunting or just tracking a legendary variety of game.

    ECONOMIST: Memoirs

  • "The Cook County Sherriff's Police, despite the fact that the assistant state's attorney told them that they didn't have to bring him back, they thought it would be better if they did bring him back to get this all cleared up because the guy keeps writing letters demanding trial, " Alvarez told reporters.

    NPR: Mistakenly Freed Killer Captured While Watching TV

  • And when not reading he was writing: letters, diaries, poems, 250, 000 words during the war alone.

    ECONOMIST: Epitaph for a poet

  • Adrienne Page QC, representing the McCanns, said there was no complaint about Mr Bennett writing the letters.

    BBC: Madeleine McCann: Legal action over cover-up allegations

  • Okay, so we doubt anybody will ever be exited about writing cover letters.

    FORBES: 4 Ways to Make Writing Cover Letters Less Painful

  • "The goal of a person suffering from this disorder in writing those letters would not necessarily be to groom or sexually consummate a relationship in a criminal manner, but rather to satisfy the needs of a psyche belabored by the needs of such a disorder, " the defense lawyers write in their motion.

    CNN: Alleged Sandusky victim details abuse

  • There have been cases where we completed some of the work ourselves like writing our own letters or conducting our own research.

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  • Cohen suggests writing in capital letters the portions of drug names similar to other medications to make distinctions more clear and to prevent errors.

    CNN: Don't be a victim of pharmacy errors

  • "If Bill de Blasio spent more time reading The Wall Street Journal and less time writing us useless letters, he would know that the City is not even considering doing the things he urges us not to do, " mayoral spokeswoman Julie Wood said in an email.

    WSJ: Privatizing New York City Parking Meters: DeBlasio Critical of Plan

  • Instead of tapping out letters or writing a word on screen, you trace each letter in a single, fluid stroke.

    BBC: The software is based on pattern recognition

  • When writing resumes, cover letters, sitting down to an interview or simply networking, the only language you should be using is to illustrate your own successes.

    FORBES: Ten Cliches To Ditch On The Job Hunt

  • He refused to let the job kill him either, delegating where he could and, in the long pauses of his working days, writing boyish love-letters to his wife.

    ECONOMIST: Ronald Reagan

  • The process takes the students through each step: selecting their target schools, filling out applications, writing essays, obtaining letters of recommendation, targeting scholarships and financial aid, reporting test scores and completing entrance exams.

    CNN: Pairing up to take the pain out of college search

  • Singer weaves that history through drawings, photographs, residents' letters, travel writing, newspaper advertisements, his own text and even a 1932 menu from the Strand Hotel.

    CNN: BOOKS

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