| New credit scores cut users' benefits
Credit bureaus are expected to adopt a new version of the widely used FICO credit score this year that will no longer benefit so-called "authorized users" on another person's credit card account. It's common for parents to add a child as an authorized user on their credit card to boost the child's credit score. That benefit will no longer exist under a new scoring model by Fair Isaac Corp., the company that developed the FICO score. You can still be an authorized user, but Fair Isaac will no longer factor authorized-user accounts into its credit-scoring formulas. The move is in response to the controversial practice of "piggybacking" in which some Web sites allow consumers with poor credit scores to hitch onto someone else's good credit record. These companies say they can boost your credit score by having you added as an authorized user on the credit cards of strangers with stellar credit, for a fee.
Memphis was dominant vs. MU
Our guys did a pretty good job, I thought, in the first half," said Jones. "We fought back and cut the lead. At halftime, we talked about the things we needed to do, but to their credit they wore us down physically. We just didn't have a lot of fight left at the end. Give Memphis credit, they had something to do with that. "But for a while in the first half, we held them pretty scoreless. Our guys definitely exerted a lot of energy in the first half, trying to keep it close." As a result the out-manned Herd wilted when Memphis stepped up its defensive intensity in the second half. "We came out of halftime with four or five turnovers," said MU star Markel Humphrey. "You can't do that. You've got to come out of halftime more aggressive than you were in the first half.
Light Industry 1991-2000
The Rostekstil state concern was transformed into an open join-stock company, and with time became the largest operator on the textile market; it owns controlling blocks of shares in 15-20 light-industry enterprises.
1993
The last phase of privatization was completed at Trekhgornaya manufactura. According to preliminary results of a check auction, 56% of its shares remained with the labor collective and 29% belonged to the State Committee for the Management of State Property (Goskomimushchestvo, or GKI). Three Russian companies bought another 15%, and 5% went to the corporatization fund of the company's workers.
On November 12, an investment tender for shares of the Bolshevichka clothing factory headed by Vladimir Gurov was held. The British corporation Illingworth Morris Ltd., whose general manager and owner was Alan Lewis, acquired 49% of the shares.
Traffic study crucial to future Target store
That will allow a 30-day clock for developers to come back in February and fix some augmentations to their plan that needs to be done," said Martin. Wegmans and Target began talking with each other 10 months ago about building on Wegmans' land in Chili. The land, already zoned commercial, is considered an untapped location for a free-standing store. The former Chase-Pitkin Home & Garden chain looked into building there four years ago. ELAMOTHE@DemocratandChronicle.com .
Fashion TV global talent search to start from China in 2008
HONG KONG, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- France's Fashion TV (fTV), the world's biggest fashion medium announced Monday during Hong Kong Fashion Week to host a global young talent search, starting from China in 2008. "China is the world's most dynamic market so it is fitting that we start our mission here in this monumental Olympic year," said Michel Adam, founder and president of fTV. "Fashion is one of the most difficult industries to successfully break into so it was a logical next step for us, with our global platform now well established, to use our expertise and resources to help the next generation of gifted young professionals realize their dreams and aspirations." The f.Diamond, the global TV station's 140-meter mega-yacht, will pass through 10 major cities in China, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sanya.
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