In one instance, she penned a false recommendation letter and signed the name of a deceased Georgetown University Law Center professor.

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She asked her history teacher, Larry Gardner, for a recommendation letter.

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"Once again, words fail me as I attempt to write this letter of recommendation, " Gardner began.

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"I don't know how many times I started that letter of recommendation, " he recalls.

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Christo wrote Cox a letter of recommendation to the Parsons School of Design in New York, where he enrolled in 1977.

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Having crafted their essays, nailed the GMAT, tightened their resume, and cajoled their supervisors for a letter of recommendation, everything is set to meet the round 2 deadline for schools across the country.

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Marcia Harris, director of University Career Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, urges those laid off to obtain a letter of recommendation before leaving the company, explaining what happened and why, indicating the employee wasn't at fault.

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Heineken is a long-term recommendation of the Sizemore Investment Letter precisely because of its exposure to emerging markets and specifically to Africa, the next great growth market.

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Prof Coffey is among several leading UK scientists who wrote a letter expressing concern over an earlier recommendation by the advocate-general of the court.

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