Reach out to past customers via e-mail and letter (Boomers still read snail mail).

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But America's Roma (who have long resented the lack of recognition for gypsy suffering in the Holocaust) and their allies lobbied so vigorously by telephone, fax, letter and e-mail that they persuaded the administration to think again.

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And once the past was saved, Bell put in place mechanisms to archive new data--indeed every letter, voice mail, word processing document and e-mail.

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Be sure to put a link to your website in your e-mail signature, on your resume and cover letter, and on social networking profiles such as LinkedIn.

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The lead investigator of a controversial study of the cholesterol drug Vytorin threatened to end working with one of the drug's makers over delays in the release of the findings, according to e-mail messages excerpted in a letter sent to drugmakers Merck and Schering-Plough by Sen.

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It would force internet-service providers (ISPs) to reveal the identities of users downloading copyrighted material, and would send them two warnings: the first by e-mail, the second by registered letter.

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