She composed a memorandum outlining her mission, if she should get the job.
"CAUTION," the nutritionist, Cathy Nonas, wrote in a memorandum to her colleagues on Aug. 20, 2009.
In a memorandum to her staff, she likened the experience to a called-off wedding: "The engagement was fun, but the pre-nup got too complex.
WASHINGTON — As a young law clerk working for Justice Thurgood Marshall at the Supreme Court in September 1987, Elena Kagan wrote an angry memorandum urging her boss to try to overturn a conservative appeals court ruling that had questioned the constitutionality of a rent-control ordinance.
Terri Thomson, the Queens member of the board, circulated a memorandum among her colleagues last week that endorsed several long-term administrative and political strategies to save money, implicitly making the case that construction in Queens should not be cut or deferred.
Fiske also forced Brooks to admit that she never made or kept a single note or memorandum about her many alleged meetings with Taubman and with Davidge.
Still, it is not clear how much the memorandums reflect her thinking today.
But Ms. Hanna sued Dr. Darakjian, a periodontist with a practice in Fort Lee, and his wife, Fran, a member of the board of adjustment, for defamation of character, contending that Dr. Darakjian had written false memorandums about her and that his wife had made defamatory remarks in the community newspaper.
Five months later, Ms. Pendergast of the F.D.A. wrote her memorandum, imploring investigators to keep digging.
In her memorandum, Dr. Johann-Liang suggested that Ketek's risks outweighed its benefits.
