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...Apparently the tactics work. The Cobrador del Frac now has 400 employees across Spain. Its commercial director, Juan Carlos Granda, says it has a 63% success rate. And with the percentage of people who default on loans skyrocketing in Spain - it reached 3.8% in January, compared with 0.95% the year before - the number of creditors who look to its services is growing. "Thanks to the [financial] crisis, we've seen about a 20% increase in business in the past year," Granda says...
...collection companies say they mainly go only after "professional" debtors: the business owner or public figure intent on gaming the system - "not families who don't earn enough to get to the end of the month," says Granda...
...South House and Newton; Roger D. Kaplan of Winthrop House and Norfolk, Va.; Paul G. Kleinman of South House and Peekskill, N.Y.; Robert V. Kohn of Dunster House and Shaker Heights, Ohio; James L. Krauss of Winthrop House and Highland Park, III,; Thomas A. Laage of Dudley House and Granda Hills, Calif...
...Detroit, another group of Esperantists took them through the Ford plant ("Kiel granda!"), and in Chicago, still another group showed them the stockyards ("Kiel multaj bestoj!"). Last week, back in Manhattan after a visit with California Esperantists and a few days in Washington, D.C., the Thollets happily pronounced the U.S. "pura, agrabla, kaj automata." But above all, they said, it is amika (friendly). Added Sinjoro Thollet to a reporter: "You ought to learn Esperanto. Only three months. Tiel facila...
Viewed from the roof of the Casa Granda, the winter of 1923 or 1924, an endless procession, all moving to this rhythm, the snaking of parties of gayly costumed boys and girls, single or double file. All on foot?and stepping. Roustabouts from the docks, cane cutters from the fields, women from the tenderloin, ragamuffins from everywhere, all swinging to the beat of that endless tune, to me then nameless. Groups of gleeful boy volunteers furnish the music. Home-made instruments?bongos of nail kegs or other kegs with ends knocked out or of hollowed log chunks, manacas, claves...