Avoid the temptation to rush, read instructions carefully and don't skimp on scrutinising background materials.
We're putting together a set of useful links to background materials on the web or events happening around the world.
But having read the background materials his campaign has posted on his Web site, I couldn't do it.
I negotiate freelance gigs by e-mail, and if I need background materials for a project, my clients send them to me digitally.
So the company has issued a boxed set: the three crime novels, plus a new book, "On Stieg Larsson," containing background materials on the late Swedish writer.
One practice other legislators have adopted is maintaining a committee blog and updating it during hearings with testimony and background materials in real time.
Since background materials are furnished by the client (warts included at the client's discretion), the writers are freed from the burden of doing original research -- and of providing journalistic balance.
In a similar vein, background materials in the Texas bill that gave Governor Bush the authority to name an alternate repository for his papers refer to the desire to modernize records and ease the state's load.
As a freelance writer working from home for the last 18 years, I am no stranger to file cabinets that neither open nor close because they are crammed with aging notes and background materials.
One of these advisers said that Mr. Cheney had begun contacting prospective administration officials for interviews and background materials, but another said that Mr. Bush would hold off on any major announcements until at least Thursday.
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