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...identifying lending-industry situations in FICO Score Trends that to our knowledge have never been seen before," said Mark Greene, CEO of FICO, in the report. "Economic instability is creating unknown risk in lenders' credit portfolios as well as counter-intuitive trends in consumer behavior...
...duration for the Access to Justice initiative is flexible and will depend in part on the year-to-year budget, according to Schmaler. It is unknown how long Tribe will work for the Department of Justice, she said...
Thaksin, who recently claimed in a newspaper interview that he was down to the last $100 million or $200 million of his fortune, though he has an unknown amount of money stashed overseas, had urged his supporters earlier Friday to accept the court's decision, whatever it might be. He spoke via video from an undisclosed location, having fled the country in 2008 rather than serve a two-year prison sentence for an earlier conviction on conflict of interest charges involving the sale of government land to his wife. He also told supporters that if the ruling went against...
...survey of retired New York City police supervisors, however, confirms what many skeptics have suspected for years. Pressure from the twice-weekly CompStat reviews inspired a certain amount of fudging (exactly how much is unknown). Police hunted for bargains on eBay so that they could adjust theft reports to reflect lower values of stolen goods, magically transforming major crimes into minor ones. A fight involving a weapon - aggravated assault - might become a mere fistfight by the time the police report was filed. Nevertheless, behind the gamesmanship was a genuine drop in crime. (Murder is down an astonishing 80% from...
Historian Howard Zinn's remarkable work, including his most famous book, A People's History of the United States, is summarized best in his own words. His primary concern, he once explained, was "the countless small actions of unknown people" that lie at the roots of the great moments of history--a record that would be profoundly misleading, and seriously disempowering, if torn from such roots. Howard, who died Jan. 27 at 87, was devoted to the empowerment of these unknowns...