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...bank's Park Avenue headquarters and asked customers there to fill out questionnaires rating the bank's services. (Sample questions: "Are there enough tellers?" "Have you ever been refused a loan?") From court records they obtained the names of loan customers who had been judged in default and interviewed dozens of them. They also conferred with ex-employees, banking scholars and Government regulators. Somehow, the investigators got hold of three secret studies, which the bank itself had commissioned, on the subjects of employee and customer attitudes about Citibank. Nader estimates that only 10% to 15% of the report...
...report noted that for each loan it makes, Citibank is twice as likely as any other New York bank to go to court for a default judgment against borrowers who fall behind in their payments. As a result, it ranks as the city's "No. 1 plaintiff." Bank officers do not dispute the Raiders' figures, but they point out that the bank makes more non-collateral loans, which require court action in the event of a default, than its four nearest competitors combined. >Other allegations focused on the bank's Master Charge credit-card service. While Citibank...
...July-Congress and the Administration seem unwilling to engage the Soviet Union in any new space races. Anticipating bigger and better Soviet space stations, U.S. space officials point out that it now seems more likely than ever that the next decade in space will go to the Russians by default...
...most misanthropic of the new films is Melvin van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song. A portrait of the Negro as the Great American Penis (the "sweet sweet-back" of the title character). it is a vile piece of ego-tripping by a black filmmaker who hopes (presumably by default) to become the "revolutionary" mass-media force of his people...
...Federal Register. If there is to be a public hearing a valid request must be filed within thirty days of the appearance of the notice. Therefore, unless some action is taken before May 23, the right to a public hearing on the Pilgrim Nuclear Station will be lost by default...