In memos back to Washington, released by WikiLeaks, the current US ambassador, Karl Eikenberry, adopted a particularly weary tone when describing often bizarre meetings with the mercurial president.
For about nine months, we sent long memos back and forth, she awarding her work marks out of ten (though at the lower end she would simply write "Discard") and me keeping track of the score.
The problem is with the organizer's hot-synching feature, the ability to transfer data like calendar appointments, phone numbers and memos back and forth between the hand-held and the PC.
To paraphrase what former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote in one of his famed snowflake memos back in 2003, today, we lack metrics to know if the benefits of using private military and security contractors exceed the costs.
IRB14 IRBs can thus interact with PIs informally and in person, rather than through the constrictions of formal memos back and forth.
The memo came back with a note from Nixon: "Let's develop the theme".This history matters.
In later years, though, the annual memo scaled back that position, declaring only that "many in the census debate believe" that tradition methods could not be accurate.
Mr. Kumar's testimony was filled with details, including the specifics of conversations, meetings and memos dating back years.
As the book should be reaching its climax, however, his narrative plods along, as if he had grown weary of tracking all the interoffice memos flying back and forth between his subjects (who cooperated with him and to whom the book is dedicated) and the CBS bosses who fired them when they were still bringing in good numbers.
