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Examples
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Take names, send certified letters as confirmations of your conversations to the correspondence address for your lender so you create a paper-trail.
Anna Cuevas: Houston, We Have a Problem With HAMP Loan Modifications Anna Cuevas 2011
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These private companies have expensive, purposly inaccurate records that leave most of us in paper-trail hell for months clearing up their mistakes in billing.
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Take names, send certified letters as confirmations of your conversations to the correspondence address for your lender so you create a paper-trail.
Anna Cuevas: Houston, We Have a Problem With HAMP Loan Modifications Anna Cuevas 2011
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Because they are "internet people," their marriage has not left the kind of paper-trail that the authorities like to see, and now Jasmina is under threat of deportation.
Boing Boing 2009
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She really thought that if she had an immaculate paper-trail proving that she followed policy to the letter at every occasion this would somehow absolve her of any blame.
Public Officials Did Not Kill “Baby P” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Remarkably, the first widely respected investigative journalist in the U.S., and the person credited with inventing the paper-trail school of journalism, was a woman.
Five Best Books on the Progressive Era Louise Knight 2010
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He wanted to keep it out of any asset-pool and he didn't want to leave a paper-trail, like renting a bank vault, so he left it ... you'll laugh ... he left the treasure in a cardboard box in the cloak - room of his club.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010
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In the end, Democrats voted for the bill including the change, because it was attached to a bill requiring paper-trail voting, which no Democrat would vote against.
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The Santa Cruz collection amounts to a kind of documentary paper-trail left by the band.
Sam Gustin: Job of the Week: UC-Santa Cruz is hiring a Grateful Dead archivist 2009
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Since very few voters in the City vote on touch-screen voting machines, the City finds it cheaper and just as easy to handcount the paper-trail contents. ballot-integrity. org
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