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Credit card companies routinely make use of credit bureaus to pre-screen the U.S. population for individuals with established financial histories in order to present them with "pre-approved" offers of credit...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You've Got Mail! | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...responsibilities of parents and movie theaters. It may be that his campaign decided that bashing Hollywood didn't work for Bob Dole in 1996. Or it could be that the entire subject is not particularly comfortable for a candidate who sat for 10 years on the board of Silver Screen Management Services Inc., a New York-based firm that financed more than two-dozen R-rated movies. The Hitcher, one of its films for Home Box Office (which is owned by this magazine's parent company), was described by reviewers as having a "massacre about every 15 minutes" and "gizzard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Issues 2000: Gore and Hollywood: Biting The Hand That Pays | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...DOWNEY, the adviser slated to play GEORGE W. BUSH in AL GORE's debate prep. The videotape and documents inside were, in their way, just as explosive. Downey popped in the videotape, and an image of George W. in a mock debate filmed a month ago flickered onto the screen. "Oops. We shouldn't be watching this," Downey said. He shipped the lot off to the FBI and gave up his debate role. Then it was the Bush campaign's turn to say "oops." The tape had been in the possession of only a handful of top campaign aides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe Someone Forgot to Return It to Blockbuster | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...BABY SITTER Ever notice how quickly children get bored, yet how intently they'll watch the same video over and over? Apparently Sony has. Its MovieTime VCR for kids repeats tapes as many times as you want, and when it's fast-forwarding or rewinding, animals bounce across the screen. The computer-generated cartoons are rudimentary, but what do you expect from a $99 machine? One more youth-minded feature: a safety lock on the tape slot to keep out food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Sep. 25, 2000 | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...with a college degree" who probably referred the application to a loan committee, which might have given an answer in two weeks. Today "you'd be sitting across the desk from somebody who was probably a teller two weeks ago, and she's reading the questions off a PC screen and typing the answers you give her. In five minutes you know whether you got the mortgage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Board of Economists: The Good Bad News | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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