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Don’t throw the baby out with the bath-water. Or, go easy on the decluttering

January will soon be here and it’ll be time to make yet another New Year’s Resolution to declutter. But sometimes it pays to be selective about what you throw out. I submitted a bid recently for a contract to translate “documents relating to the policies and administration of the European Union”. To take part, you had …

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Posted byMarian Dougan15 December 20118 July 2014Posted inLife and work and everything else, TranslationTags: contracts, decluttering, Life and work, tenders, translation2 Comments on Don’t throw the baby out with the bath-water. Or, go easy on the decluttering

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