The article served as a useful starting point for our discussion.

这篇文章成了我们展开讨论的良好起点。

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Try to include something useful — a link to an interesting article, perhaps, or an offer to help the reader in the future — when you follow up.

当你跟进联系的时候，试试做一些有用的事情——一篇有趣的文章的链接，或者为将来的读者提供帮助。

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As these examples illustrate, the XML_NITF package provides a useful tool to quickly access specific fragments of information about a news article encoded in NITF format.

这些例子说明，对于快速访问nitf格式的新闻文章中的特定信息片断，XML_NITF包不失为一种方便的工具。

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Let your friends and contacts know, for example, if you just attended a full-day seminar on a topic that would be useful to a future employer, post an interesting article related to your field, or add new skills or relevant experience to your profile.

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But mobile money and other new ideas that could help the poor (see article) provide a useful reminder that financial innovation in itself is not always a bad thing.

ECONOMIST: Telecoms

For purposes of this article we would like to introduce a new and more useful perspective for pensions in their analysis of soft dollars or any other brokerage issue.

FORBES: Pensions and Brokerage: The Brokerage Battlefield Revisited (October 1, 2000)