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When Keith was getting recruited in the spring of his junior year, teams like Michigan State, Iowa, Michigan, Virginia Tech were stopping by, and one of the recruiters said, 'Palisades? I've driven this 611 route at least 100 times in 20 years between Easton and CB West and I never even knew there was a school here,' ... Now that Keith brought that attention, some other kids have gotten letters (from colleges). It's opened avenues for some of the other guys.

We weren't aware of it until they sent the letters to homeowners.

When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly; and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last, it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly, and to write correctly, and difficult, as well as altogether unnecessary, to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life.

There are probably some letters on the fax machine right now. We lose 21 seniors next year, so we are trying to load up for that time.

We wear wrist bands with the letters TBA. It stands for trust, belief and accountability. Those are the three words that really describe our program. The guys are buying into that now.

We want you to remember that the letters in Troy stand for something, ... T is for tradition that you are all now part of. R is for the life-long Relationships that we hope you'll make here. O is for the Opportunity that you all now have. And Y is for You because we want your time here to be about you.

But then I resist efforts by North American publishers to change my language, because if ever they do, I get letters from readers saying: it's set in England, we don't want it to sound American.

The good part for me is that the bounce back off it has been exceptional. The e-mails, the letters of support have been sensational.

We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right now, we've sent letters out to people asking for $1,000 donations to pay off the buildings. While trying to pay off the building, we've also been raising money to renovate the marquee. ... I'm hoping people will respond to the letters that we sent and at least send some money.

We almost always have some music students in the house; it's used a great deal. It was really fun to get letters from all ages saying they really appreciate the piano.

We all have to take responsibility for the direction we are going. In our schools we are focusing on numbers and letters but we need, from the earliest times, to get across the concept that we are connected to nature and that we are trying to find a space to sustain ourselves.

We will be adding categories for children of that age. The letters will not be as rigid, if you will.

We knew from the very beginning that this was a Soviet crime. There were letters (from the detention camp) that people received, including from my own father. All of a sudden the letters stopped coming. We were aware that something happened in the spring of 1940. There was no doubt.

You had time to write letters to the City Council, to the state of North Dakota, to the government of Canada (seeking support) but you didn't have time to walk across campus to the biology department? That's unforgivable, unacceptable.

What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.

The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.

We got so many letters from readers asking about it and so many pitches from writers wanting to write about it. Definitely there was increased interest.

We got really into this project, researching, going to the Capitol and delivering letters to all the Senators.

We say that every year and we prove it every year when we bring guys up from our Minor League system and they help us win. This year, we sort of did it with capital letters and neon lights and flood lights on the letters because we had so many of them here. That's a direct tribute to scouting and player development.

You get all these things, there are all these letters and gifts, sometimes strange ones; most of the time it can be really nice. But at the same time, it's overwhelming. Because I know I'm going to have to look through it. Most of it is filling the corners of my house and I can't respond to it all right away.

War is always seductive, ... 'Full Metal Jacket' didn't make me want to join the Marines. I already had fallen in love with the idea of combat. I think whether somebody feels that about our movie is subjective. It depends on the viewer. I got letters from people who said 'I was thinking about joining up and I read your book and now I can't wait' and I got letters from people who said 'I was thinking about joining up and I read your book and now I'm going to go to college.'

We did a lot of door-to-door contact in Lake Ida, and we had some folks that did neighborhood letters for me in there. It was a key precinct.

We went to see the movie together, ... They got these good looking actors and actress to play him and his wife, so he was really happy. Afterwards he said: 'I get letters and e-mails from all over the world and now they've made a movie of my life story. I have to pinch myself. You can't buy things like that'.

Even though the wheel is smaller than it appears on TV, it is only five or six foot in diameter, it is very heavy. I can't spin it very well so he turned the wheel and I guessed the letters and puzzles.

Commissioner Albert Hawkins has ordered that the coverage of these (enrollment fee) children be restored immediately. Letters to these families will go out as soon as possible, and they will be given sufficient time to pay the fee.

Cowboys weren't allowed to kiss girls in pictures, so one time I gave Dale a little peck on the forehead and we got a ton of letters to leave that mushy stuff out, ... So I had to kiss Trigger instead.

Currently, letters and minutes of meetings relating to an issue may be dispersed over several PCs and servers.

Early on, I received hundreds of letters every week from readers. Later, however, as groups began to organize, readers began writing to one another.

During Designing Women I went and did Love Letters a few times, but that was it. Aside from that, I hadn't done a play since drama school.

First, none of our interpretative letters has anything to do with real estate brokerage.

There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick the stuff up, but if you have a neighborhood association ... that goes much farther than what we can do.

There was a certain amount of romantic sentiment that comes through some of the letters

I start the very first day of school. We practice our letters for at least 10 minutes.

I should never have made that statement. The reason I made that statement at that time was because the Sox weren't doing particularly well, the Bulls were on top of the world, people were sending me letters saying, 'You're not paying attention to the White Sox; you're spending too much time on the Bulls.' So I figured one way to put it to rest it is to make a stupid statement like that, and so I did, and now it's been haunting me.

I've called these letters pages out of our national autobiography.

I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you. Each one a line or two: "I'm fine, baby. How are you?" I would send them, but I know that it's just not enough. My words are cold and flat, and you deserve more than that.

The worst time of my life was the next two weeks that we won the championship and thousands of hate letters started coming in. And it really didn't dawn on me what this was all about until that time.

The wording is very similar to letters that have been sent to other prominent people across the country.

The search for Rita was complicated by the task of determining the letters she embroidered in her last name. We had lots of possibilities.

I've received so many letters and telephone calls, it's hard to keep up. I appreciated it so much. But I'm fine.

These letters never have any term of expiration, so the band remain bound by the deal memo until a contract is signed, no matter how long that takes.

These letters are like touchstones in history to me. I really want to put them out.

Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all across America. Not because my novels for young readers are bestsellers - they're not by a long shot - but because today's kids love to write to authors.

Teachers don't want to have a letter sent home saying that they are not highly qualified, ... We likely will have a few of those letters that will have to go out. Hopefully in that letter, somehow we can explain to parents that we still feel like the teacher we have in that classroom is a very good teacher, who will do an excellent job.

Sometimes these kids just picked up a stick and scratched letters on the ground. Their parents couldn't afford pens and pencils.

SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.

Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad!

Public security bureaus across the country received more than 200,000 letters and visits from citizens who had grievances to air during the four months, and 180,000 of them have been dealt with.

Probably four out of five letters I get are about it. Fans want to know how I'm going to do or whatever.

Our employees increasingly are telling us -- via e-mail, telephone calls and letters -- that they want to understand our offer. They want to know what UPS put on the table. So we're going to tell them.

Our family has gotten a lot of letters and cards from people who have lost children in a variety of ways. The biggest thing is, it's not as rare as we would think. People have been in that situation and a lot of people have gotten through it. As much as you never want to be in it or want anybody else to be in it, people do make it through.

After I returned to school, we received a large manila envelope filled with letters written back to several of our students. I hope it is the beginning of an ongoing pen-pal relationship.

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

Companies are getting letters informing them of what allegations are likely to be made and what evidence is going to appear in the October report. They are being given an opportunity to respond to it.

A new chain letter has entered the charts claiming that the MSN will be closed down unless the bogus email is forwarded to family, friends and colleagues. As always, these chain letters are best deleted as they waste bandwidth.

As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

That's not going to change just because Secretary Rumsfeld might move on, any more than tomorrow we might decide we're going to throw away our computers and start writing letters again.

This is going to be like the 'Bridges of Madison Avenue', a very brief affair I'll write about in sappy letters to my grandchildren.

This is about unity in capital letters -- U-N-I-T-Y," ()

They sort of showered us with letters trying to explain this or that.

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

They have been served with letters of suspension.

They didn't tell us. We found out because we got letters from our health insurance company saying our policies had been canceled.

There were a couple of dissenters, maybe a couple of letters to the editor, but no big controversy.

The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for editors to draft those elaborate letters asking for a blurb, and I know it's torturous for us writers to ask directly. But publishers encourage us to. Rock and a hard place.

The request-for-donation letters didn't get out in time.

There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters . . . I could be their leader.

They're basically what I'd call friendship letters - some would call them love letters. They had a semi-romantic relationship.

There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.

At any given time, ... I probably have eight to 10 similar cases I'm working on, either writing letters or legally. We have three we're working on right now other than Mr. Reese.

As shareholders, we have a lot of questions. But Goldman has not provided substantive responses, either to our letters or at the shareholder meeting.

According to his brother Stanislaus . . . 'Unhappiness was like a vice.' He was cold and distant except with those closest to him, but when, on his mother's death, he discovered a bundle of letters that his father had written to her before they were married, he spent the whole afternoon reading them 'with as little compunction as a doctor or a lawyer . . . puts questions.' When he had finished, Stanislaus asked him: 'Well?' 'Nothing,' James Joyce answered curtly and rather contemptuously. Nothing, thought Stanislaus, for the young poet with a mission, but clearly something for the woman who had kept them all those years of neglect and poverty.

It wasn't like, 'I'm going to do this to you. I'm going to do that to you'. It was just a stupid letter. I've gotten stupid letters before. That's basically it. Now, for some reason, it's on the front page and it's some big, huge story.

It was cool, man. I've been getting that pretty much from everybody. All the letters (I've received), I still have in my locker. It's just a good feeling to have a lot of people supporting me, especially in a city that's so tough.

It's a frustration that these letters aren't considered public and so it's difficult to understand what the risks are.

It means a lot. I'm starting to get letters from Arkansas and Coach Nutt is up here. Arkansas, Arkansas State, Ole Miss and Indiana are schools I'm interested in. Most of my films are at free safety, but I plan to go to camp at Arkansas to show them I can play linebacker.

It's good that they (management members) said they have gotten some good feedback from the Department of Education. But the deal could run into some snags. The rules for these deals state that if the acquiring company doesn't have a record of running a school, for 12 months it can't open new locations or introduce new classes. It could make the buyers increase the amount of equity in the deal, or require sizeable letters of credit.

It's gonna be hard. We've got 26 letters to do in 10 weeks.

It's been amazing. We couldn't be more grateful. We still get checks and letters from strangers who've lost their own children and just want to help.

It's sad, but Manson has become somewhat of a folk hero to young people. He gets four fan letters a day.

It's unbelievable how it's all worked out, most of all with these four letters on my chest.

It's tragic, because the father will not meet with his family. This is a good family, you know. We have letters four months ago, how they used to write to each other, send money to Cuba to help him and now after Castro loco got involved, look what happened.

Donna came from a McDonald's happy meal logo. We were rearranging the letters and totally joking.

The NPC Standing Committee also paid great attention to letters and visits and put the complaints widely aired by ordinary people as its supervision priorities.

That's a different kind of pressure. I've had a lot of letters from coaches that said they would be calling me and want me to visit their campus. I've been looking forward to playing in college, and I think it will be a lot of fun.

It's strictly voluntary ... The letters will be an invitation.

Studies show that not all children are ready with the basic skills like recognizing numbers and letters . . . when they reach kindergarten, which puts them at a huge disadvantage. This is intended to bridge the gap.

Its amazing to see and hear the various opinions of the people arrived in Nova Scotia. Some hold the land as good, as the account given by Charles Dixon in his letters to England, others think them pretty good but nothing compared to C. Dixon's account - But a great many, especially the poorest sort, for which I'm greatly concerned, for I cannot see how they are to earn their bread or by what means they must be supported.

It looked out of date, like it was from the '50s. (Without students on the committee) they might have gone with the script. It seems like everybody likes the block letters now.

I've had neighbors and friends who have helped me, and I wrote letters to the editor to thank them, and those are published online, ... But that was a while back.

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

It tells us story and there's a lot more we want to add to the collection like letters from the president.

The warning is clearly nonsense and no such virus exists. However, hoaxes and chain letters like this are not harmless - they waste time and bandwidth, and can be a genuine headache for support departments. Users need to think ask themselves whether everything they are told can be believed.

They came up with the font off of just enlarging MS Word, and laid out the letters and spaced them, and we had to make it fit and it just worked pretty good.

They've sent us several letters requesting another meeting, and we've got to get it settled sometime, so we thought we'd go ahead and talk with them again and see where we're at.

They have report cards, and letters they wrote to each other when they were little. Various ladies in the Unser family have done a good job of organizing the family tree. The amount of stuff they have -- boxes and boxes and boxes of photographs and family stuff from when the brothers were just little boys, all of the houses, buildings and passenger cars they owned -- it's just astonishing.

These teens are not much younger than some of the soldiers their letters are going to. But their words show some great insights as well as the typical teenage gossip and humor.

Once I did interviews with her family and got all of the medical information that I needed, I started to write letters to the Suffolk County Rotary. Luckily, within a few months, they picked her.

The Newberry seemed the perfect place for Mike's papers, ... I'm sure he would be honored and humbled to know his columns and papers are in such good company with the works of his respected colleagues and those he admired. Now everything he saved, from his funny hand-written responses to readers to the get well letters he received, will be accessible to anyone who wants to see a more personal side of Mike.