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Fiscal management practices that sparked concern included the UC’s failure to co-sign checks, retain documents in an organized and systematic fashion, and store files off-site in the event of damage. Another noted deficiency in the 2007 audit was the lack of a memorandum to guide the transition period between outgoing and elected treasurers, according to Paraszczak...
...Consider the illogic with which the screenplay shoehorns a token African-American couple - their buddy Shane (Faizon Love) and his new girlfriend Trudy (Kali Hawk) - into the cast. Shane, a recently divorced man with the belly of a woman fast approaching her fourth trimester, is introduced begging Dave to co-sign a loan for a hot motorcycle that is intended to impress Trudy, who is 20, has pink streaks in her hair and calls Shane "Daddy." (The old joke is that in horror movies, the African-American characters always get killed first. Here they are saddled with such unpleasant stereotyping...
Legally, you are stuck. Most leases contain a holdover clause that entitles landlords to collect double the rent plus legal fees from tenants who remain after the lease expires without a signed release. Baltimore real estate attorney Thomas C. Barbuti recommends that, whenever possible, parents of the roommates co-sign a lease and exchange letters agreeing to share liability. Landlords tend to go after the parents with the deepest pockets...
After dropping out of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Ripley decided to make a go of overstocked couture at a discount. She got her father to co-sign a 30-day, $30,000 note, which she used to buy 300 chic but so-last-season pieces. Then she resold them on eBay at a 225% profit...
...C.C.C.B., Beijing this year is expected to raise the interest rates banks can charge. In January the country enacted a new law specifically to promote SMEs, in part by creating a massive fund to expand a nationwide network of loan-guarantee offices that, in effect, allows the government to co-sign loans to creditworthy companies. Similar loan-guarantee schemes have worked well in other countries. Wang Hailin, director of the policy department at the State Economic and Trade Commission, calls the program "one of the most practical measures taken in recent years to support SMEs in China...