Word: obvious
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...Mike Mondelli, president of L2C, which uses historical phone payments and other records to assess an individual's creditworthiness, says his company's business accelerated in May and June of last year as it became obvious that more and more lenders were having loan problems. He says his company has signed on a number of new clients in the past year and that his clients are not using his company's data just to make new loans but also to better assess the risks of the loans they already have made. "Traditional credit scores do a reasonable job of separating...
Sure, experts say, he'll cough up the obvious brokerage accounts, client names, and offshore and numbered accounts that dealt directly with his investment company, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. And he'll begrudgingly concede the $7 million Park Avenue pad, the Palm Beach digs, the yachts, the French villa and the Montauk getaway. But no one believes he'll tell authorities where all the booty is stashed - not a chance, unless it saves him from walking the plank. It's the equivalent of the British government asking the infamous pirate Captain Kidd if he wouldn't mind handing...
...drinking the GOP Kool-Aid to say that much good has been accomplished on Bush's watch - just as it's obvious that this press release carefully sidesteps the Administration's calamitous failures, from the economy to Hurricane Katrina. But whether this review of the past eight years spurs applause or outrage, anyone attempting to take stock of Bush's policies should know which ones he's putting on his résumé. He might prefer that we postpone appraisals - history, as he likes to say, will be his judge - but one last clear-eyed argument for his legacy...
...people to form such strongly left-leaning political positions. The impulse comes from a lack of experience and from a lack of faith in the experience of predecessors. The view presumes that virtually all of the political leaders that have come before now have either failed to realize something obvious or, worse, are too misguided or self-serving to seek solutions that prioritize anyone other than themselves. It is precisely because of this view that so many Harvard students and their contemporaries are hoping to attend Barack Obama’s inauguration: We’ve miraculously chosen...
...their echoes beyond the College gates. Many pundits have dubbed Obama a modern Lincoln or even the next FDR. As Eleanor Clift, a long-time journalist and pundit who is nearly 70 years old, gushed on the McLaughlin Group last week, “Yes, Barack Obama is obvious [as the Biggest Winner of 2008]. But I would like to broaden it a bit, because I think it’s the restoration of democracy in this country. The people have truly spoken, and spoken loud. And I think his election really helps restore America’s standing...