Kathy was the business's secretary, bookkeeper, credit department, public-relations manager -- she did everything in the office, while her husband handled the building and painting.
Louise got in touch with the consumer credit department at Iberiabank.
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It has been late in paying several foreign debts, including one to Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Department.
But she was recently declined a new major credit card and even a department-store credit card.
At least one big institution has been thinking of shutting its credit-research department.
For more information about universal credit, visit the Department for Work and Pensions website.
As for credit-card costs to the government, a Treasury Department agency handles all government credit-card transactions and negotiates costs.
Box 364, LaPorte, CO 80535, or call Canyon Utilities at 970-881-2262 to make a credit card donation to the department.
If a department store or credit card company wants to call you 50 times a day at all hours and berate you mercilessly, the FDCPA will not protect you.
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"Key elements of that robust regulatory regime must include conservative capital requirements, business conduct standards, reporting requirements and conservative requirements relating to initial margins on counterparty credit exposures, " the department added.
The ECB's wake-up call is likely to come when its statistics department discovers that credit growth in the euro area has contracted for the first time since the formation of the European Monetary Union, says Cailloux.
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"Markit has been informed of an investigation by the Department of Justice into credit derivatives and related markets, " says spokeswoman Teresa Chick.
The carrier finance department used them to credit a customer for up to several million dollars in payments as if the money had already been received, when it hadn't yet arrived at MCI.
Every time you open an account the department store is requesting your credit report.
Separately, the Bush administration announced its own rescue plan, which would extend the Treasury Department's line of credit to the companies.
The government's export credit agency, the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), will launch an Export Working Capital Scheme, a Bond Support Scheme, and will support banks offering foreign exchange hedging contracts to SMEs by sharing credit risk.
The Department of Energy has taken credit for laying the groundwork for the current natural gas boom, citing research and development dating back to the 1970s that led to today's hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, techniques of extracting gas from shale.
Along the way the credit card giants have tangled with the Justice Department and Amex over rules limiting which cards banks can issue.
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Evidence of its dilemma can be found in initial White House reluctance even to acknowledge publicly the full magnitude of Moscow's latest bid to tap U.S. taxpayer largesse via credits supported by the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC).
Panic after credit markets locked up on September when the Treasury Department incoherently let Lehman Brothers go after saving Bear Stearns.
This top-rated credit card gives you 2 percent cash back on regular department store purchases.
In Russia, some bold pickpockets return a "found" wallet to a victim after having scanned credit cards to record numbers, according to a State Department report on crime in that country.
Soviet officials asked for the guarantee to be raised from 98 percent, which is the standard for countries with credit problems, to 100 percent, said an Agriculture Department official who insisted on anonymity.
The U.S. Department of Justice website updates a list of approved credit counseling agencies.
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The defense department's PA shop has yet to take credit for setting off this week's cause celebre.
It has a mind-boggling mix of exclusive stores and KaDeWe in Tauentzienstrasse, the largest department store in continental Europe, will keep your credit cards busy for a while.
Like department-store cards, gas cards typically carry low credit limits and interest rates that hover at about 25%.
After numerous attempts, the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department may have found an effective way to thaw the credit markets.
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