Word: assessement
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...assess a patient's condition? For a woman, you have to go through a very extensive evaluation, checking out the medicines she is on - birth control pills can induce hair loss. You also do a series of blood tests looking for thyroid disease, iron levels. Dietary causes are amazing causes of hair loss. So women who diet or are bulimic or very thin women who don't have much meat on their bones may very well be nutritionally deprived, vitamin deprived, and they will end up with hair loss as well...
...Both sides traded shots after their separate announcements, but Gaza residents say the cease-fire seems to be gaining strength, and Palestinians have emerged from their refuges to assess the damage of Israel's three-week-long air and land assault against Hamas in Gaza...
...Mike Mondelli, president of L2C, which uses historical phone payments and other records to assess an individual's creditworthiness, says his company's business accelerated in May and June of last year as it became obvious that more and more lenders were having loan problems. He says his company has signed on a number of new clients in the past year and that his clients are not using his company's data just to make new loans but also to better assess the risks of the loans they already have made. "Traditional credit scores do a reasonable job of separating...
...Companies that provide so-called alternative credit information say their business is booming, even as the rest of the lending industry continues to shrink. Banks once sought out such information as rent-payment histories to assess whether to lend to individuals who lack a credit score because they may never have had a credit card or mortgage and don't have enough credit history to generate a rating. These days, more and more banks are using the supplemental information, even with customers who have a credit score, in an effort to lower loan defaults...
...have had very solid growth this year," says Thomas Brown, vice president of financial services at LexisNexis, who also helps run RiskView, a service that uses such public filings as court records and property deeds to assess credit risk. "Our data [are] being seen as useful by a wider variety of lenders...