Each month the system generates power, the homeowner gets a cash credit on his or her utility bill, and those credits add up.
Its famous Fico credit scores determine how much interest homeowners pay on their mortgages and whether a bond constructed from those mortgages gets a high credit rating.
It comes to the screen through the patronage of Nicole Kidman, who gets a producer credit here as well as one of those rare movie roles that can draw her out of her shell.
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The 23-year-old DJ released "Harlem Shake" last May, but it wasn't until Feb. 2 that the first video emerged featuring a silly dance to the song. (A YouTube denizen known as Filthy Frank gets that credit.) A version by a crew of Australian skateboarders established the jump-cut blueprint, and an entry by employees of Maker Studios, a digital media company, inspired other office imitators.
Snedeker, the top putter on the PGA Tour last year, is a Tennessean, but his grandmother runs a golf course in Missouri and gets credit for putting clubs in his hands when he was a youngster.
Management typically gets too much credit when a stock has risen to extremes and too much blame when it falls.
In the case of Visa and MasterCard (nyse: MA - news - people ), when a credit card is swiped, the transaction gets relayed--via an intermediary--to the credit card company, which then sluices the funds to the merchant's bank account.
For each credit spent, Facebook gets a non-negotiable 30% cut.
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Del Toro has been working as a consultant at DreamWorks and gets executive producer credit on the upcoming Kung Fu Panda 2 as well as on Puss in Boots.
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Akerson, a hands on operator, so far gets no credit from Wall Street.
When a company is a subsidiary of a larger one, the parent company gets the credit.
T-Mobile gets some credit for addressing the negative connotations of a legally binding agreement and an early termination "fee, " but if you want to keep the phone you obtained at the discounted price, you'll have to keep paying monthly installments until it's paid off.
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One day my son asked a series of questions about how money gets on the credit card.
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That immediate gratification attitude is what gets our credit card balances skyrocketing, our decision to purchase a home with little or no money down, little or no cash reserves to fall back on and insufficient assets to fund education for our children or retire in comfort.
In pulling it off, he demonstrated how much a man can achieve if he does not mind who gets the credit.
It also has taken up to 26 months for some to go through the VDP process, and that cost in Life Credit Units (LCUs) never gets accounted for on a reconciliation balance sheet.
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Finally you assign a referee to report on whether you did what you said. (You can be your own referee, but this seems a bit perilous to me.) If not, your credit card gets automatically charged.
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The condo owner, moreover, can deduct property taxes, and gets a partial exemption from capital gain taxes when he moves, notes James Banahan, a credit analyst with National Cooperative Bank in New York.
Sony's "Welcome Back" package of free software and PlayStation Plus subscriptions was a nice gesture, but it won't help you if your credit card gets fraudulently charged in the aftermath of the PlayStation Network debacle.
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The winner of the race gets to add its block to the blockchain, and in that block it can credit itself a fixed number of new bitcoins (currently 25 BTC) as a reward for participating in this process.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), brought to life by Dodd-Frank, announced on July 16th that it will start regulating credit-reporting bureaus, such as Equifax, which help determine whether a consumer gets a loan.
So if gets approved, the drug will get extra protection from competition, plus the company will get a research tax credit off future profits.
And when a sovereign gets a downgrade (as Greece of course has) then corporates based in that country will see their own credit rating downgraded.
While Mr. Cruyff gets much of the credit for transforming Spain's approach, its recent success owes just as much to a little-known coach named Juanma Lillo, who devised the tactical framework that has underpinned La Roja's success.
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