Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BACK in 1963, before going on to our Tokyo and Moscow bureaus, Jerrold Schecter enrolled in seminars on Sino-Soviet Relations and Defense Policy at Har vard, where he was spending a year as a Nieman fellow. His teacher: a brilliant 40-year-old professor of government from Germany named Henry Kissinger...
...instrument for change will be the National, Advertising Review Board, which is being formed by the major advertising trade associations in cooperation with the Council of Better Business Bureaus. The review board, expected to be operating by fall, will consist of 50 members representing advertising agencies, industry and the public. B.B.B. offices around the country will accept complaints about national print or broadcast ads, and a Manhattan-based staff of ad specialists will monitor promotions. If an advertiser ignores the complaints, the matter will go to the review board, which will then 1) determine whether the complaint is justified...
...thousands of computerized, credit-checking bureaus across the country constitute an awesome but lightly regulated intelligence network. The information they supply to stores, banks, insurance companies and employers intimately affects the borrowing potential, earning power and reputations of millions of Americans. Yet many are oblivious to the existence, much less the extent or accuracy, of the data that credit bureaus disseminate about them...
...give consumers protection against abuses, Congress passed the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which took effect last week. The measure was adopted after testimony revealed that information on consumers is sometimes hastily collected for the credit-reporting bureaus by recent high school graduates, who get their information by checking newspaper reports of arrests and by secretly interviewing neighbors of the people under investigation. Prodded by supervisors trying to justify the service, some investigators aim for a 10% to 15% rejection rate in their reports...
...insurance policy because of an unfavorable credit report, he must be told so by the person turning him down. He then has the right to examine the bureau's files; if he can prove that an item is inaccurate, it must be struck out. Bureaus must also be certain that their clients have a bona fide interest in the individual's background. Finance companies are acceptable; lawyers looking for ammunition in a divorce case are not. The FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and other Government agencies, which had easy access to data banks, must now have a court...