"A good stenographer will beat a Qwerty keyboard hands down, " explains stenographer Mary Sorene.

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There will be no recording of the session, and there will not be a stenographer in the room.

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The Boogie Board Jot Folio is a leather-like case with a convenient flip-over design similar to a traditional stenographer notepad.

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Now, at the leadership meetings, there are more people in there and some people take notes, but even in that, there is no stenographer.

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For a year he relied on a stenographer.

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The allegation was based on the words of an investigating judge, Isabelle Prevost-Desprez, who quoted Mrs Bettencourt's former nurse, speaking off the record to the judge's stenographer at an interrogation last year.

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There was no stenographer.

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