Word: credited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faith, or tried to. To have had a part in some of the things that have been accomplished in the field of civil liberties, in the field of better race relations, and the rest of it-that's the kind of achievement that I have to my credit...
...years, and lately has been expanding too rapidly for its own good. Business has been on the up swing for 95 months - since February 1961, the month after John Kennedy took office at the tail end of a recession. Though the Democratic policymakers certainly cannot claim all the credit for the longest advance in the nation's history, they have done a conspicuous amount of managing and masterminding through their Keynesian New Economics. They leave behind a remarkable record for the Republicans to try and match-as well as many difficult problems for them to try to solve...
...problem with credit bureaus is their lack of humanity. A man may have been late with his car payments, and his personal file will record that without the mitigating explanation that he was ill at the time and unable to work. Another may once have argued with a department store over the quality of its merchandise; his credit report will label him forever as "antagonistic" or "a troublemaker." Yet another may be the victim of mistaken identity, sued for nonpayment of a bill run up by another person with the same name. The suit will be duly noted...
Until now, there has been no way to require credit bureaus and the people who run them to behave like sensitive and sympathetic human beings. But "some regulations are vitally necessary," Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire insisted after last week's hearings. To that end, he has promised to introduce legislation next month that would keep credit data confidential, allow people to correct errors in their own credit records, and eliminate irrelevant or outdated information from credit-bureau files...
...duty. Released in 1951 through a controversial act of U.S. clemency, he soon broke his pledge to the Allies never again to produce coal or steel and began selling to new markets, especially in Eastern Europe and Asia. When the Krupp firm finally foundered in 1966, because of overextended credit, it was only because Alfried was clinging to old financial ways. He died soon after, and with him, the dynasty. His son Arndt, a wiK lowy jet-setter, who does not carry the Krupp name, sensibly had no stomach for the Krupp empire...