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...credit agencies point out that banks, credit-card companies and other consumer lenders sometimes fail to report promptly on the status of their accounts. Another problem in the industry is that federal law prohibits the credit repositories from sharing information, so that updated information that reaches one databank may still be missing from others...
Norman R. Smith, assistant dean and director of career and student services, said yesterday he will construct "a databank of Harvard contacts" for the school's 742 students, adding that recent expansion has made students' previous reliance on individual faculty contacts impractical...
Smith said his databank, which will take about a year to complete, will include Kennedy School and Harvard alumni in government or private employment...
Researchers at the bureau have access to a larger data base and a small databank service from Data Resources Institute (DRI), a publicly-held forecasting firm where Eckstein works half time for half pay. DRI provides the services free as a professional courtesy to economists solving large systems of complicated equations or developing simulation models...