Word: files
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...credit-reporting agency in Mississippi filed an investigation by a field agent that quoted townfolk as saying that a female insurance adjuster was "scatterbrained," "peculiar," "neurotic or psychotic." Only after a drawn-out struggle and considerable loss of work was the adjuster able to persuade the agency to delete the words "neurotic and psychotic" from her file...
...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...
...slate is probably clean," Behm said, "and perhaps we won't be bothered any more." He emphasized, however, that this was a case brought against the government, and it remains to be seen whether the Selective Service will file suit against the men for non-possession of their draft cards...
...explained that Harvard has more new NSF projects for 1969 than many universities, and that the new projects still have to compete with older ones under the University's expenditure ceiling. Harvard will file such an appeal, Wiggins said...
Mention should also be made of the Pompadour method, named after the late Izzy Pompadour, Taylor Cheesewitt Professor of Applied History, whose reading lists remain on file at the Faculty Club. The typical Pompadour list was split into five areas (with such titles as "Chaos and Collapse" and "A Wing and a Prayer"), each in turn split among books "Recommended," "Critical," "Assumed," "Incidental," and "Basic." Professor Pompadour introduced many variations upon this theme, but the most successful was his habit of withdrawing all books from Widener at the start of each term, and relocating them to his home in greater...