To prove her point, Schwartz points out that nothing the government has done to date has really thawed credit.
Fuller settled that case in 2005, saying there was an agreement that X-Factor would not air in the US until 2011 - and that he would be granted an executive producer credit if it aired after that date.
What this ritual interchange reveals is a larger habit of thinking about the more enjoyable things in life: They're only on loan or acquired on credit, and sooner or later the date when they must be paid for will roll around.
Its principal accomplishments to date have been press releases claiming credit for cases that often predated the financial crisis and involve low-level Ponzi and mortgage-fraud schemes.
Walker and Fred McMahon, the two outstanding economists who led this effort at Fraser, deserve much credit for launching the most serious effort to date to measure what matters, and giving us so much material to ponder.
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Phil Falcone of Harbinger Capital told investors this week his distressed credit fund returned 11.6 percent year to date.
If the charges were not completely paid by the specified dates, then interest would be charged to the credit card account in an amount computed from the date of purchase.
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Industry analysts are cautiously optimistic about the sector after stronger year-to-date sales, healthier inventory levels, more favorable credit conditions and improved consumer sentiment have boosted demand for American light-vehicle manufacturing.
Unlike its more profitable private sector rival HDFC Bank, ICICI is ready to sacrifice short-term net for gaining market share, as it did in undercutting HDFC's long-standing lead in mortgage loans. (Overall, ICICI's net interest margin of 2.25% is less than half that of HDFC Bank's 4.72%.) Similarly, ICICI has overtaken Citibank as the country's largest issuer of credit cards, with 8.5 million cards issued to date.
After December 2006, the law will prohibit companies from printing the expiration date or more than the last five digits of a credit or debit card on a hard copy receipt.
Investors should be aware that (despite the often generous payouts) debentures are usually at the low end of the credit totem pole, and payouts may be deferred until the redemption date of the security.
That is why, to date, Web video has been confined to jerky images in credit-card-size windows on the PC.
Other variations: being one credit short of the number required to graduate, missing a critical court date or having to take an exam in a course for which they never went to class.
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It claims that IMDb improperly exploited data associated with Ms. Hoang's credit card, which she used to register, to find out her birth date.
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Upon doing so she realized that her public profile, which had been created with her stage name, was updated to include her legal date of birth, information the actress claims was gleaned from her credit card information when processing the payment.
To date, however, the banking system has shortchanged depositors so that it can provide inexpensive credit to state-owned enterprises.
Ed Thomas, insolvency practitioner at accountancy firm Mazars told Credit Today it was the celebrity's responsibility to ensure their financial affairs are up-to-date.
BillMeLater, for example, doesn't require a credit card or debit card number, but it does ask for a customer's Social Security number and date of birth.
The final pieces of data were the last four digits of the credit card that was used to pay for the flight, the type of card, and the amount and date of the charge.
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