| Experian offers credit freeze facility from November 1
Consumer credit reporting bureau Experian has announced that it will be offering its customers in 50 states and the District of Columbia, the chance to freeze their credit histories starting November 1. Experian is the second firm after TransUnion to offer consumers the option of freezing their credit histories. By freezing histories, consumers can block access to their reports by new creditors. The company said that it would be charging $10 every time a consumer wants to freeze his/her history temporarily or permanently. "It will be one option among a broad range of fraud-assistance tools we already provide to consumers so that they may make the choice best suited to their situation," said Kerry Williams, group president of credit services and decision analytics business at Experian. "Now that a national model for file freezing has emerged, Experian is offering this option to help prevent consumer confusion." TransUnion was the first company to offer this option, which will come into effect starting October 15.
Commercial means that can't justify ends
I hope the AFL fights for the rights of its sportsmen and drop kicks the Government's ultimatum out of the MCG. The AFL may well be fighting for the rights of all to be left alone from the government interference. Darryl Coulthard, Castlemaine Sport in our psyche I HAVE a question for Sushi Das (Opinion, 6/10). Who were the first Australians? They were the members of the Combined Australian XI cricket team who took on England at the MCG in 1877 and won by 45 runs. It was the first act of the colonies uniting. The Yanks had their War of Independence. We had a cricket match. We expressed our emerging national consciousness through sport then, as we still do. Much the same dynamics were in play when most of us stayed up in 1983 to watch the America's Cup fall to us.
Secret Government plan will see offenders given shorter sentences for ...
Last night the Conservatives dubbed the scheme a "get out of jail free" card and said it was a desperate bid to slash the prison population. Shadow Justice Minister Edward Garnier said: "The Government has made a mockery of parliamentary democracy by ramming ill-considered new criminal justice laws through the House of Commons without a vote. "I fail to see how time spent at home drinking and taking drugs can be classed as incarceration." Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Herbert said: "Far from being tough on crime and on the causes of crime, Jack Straw is giving criminals a break." Over the past ten years, the Government has been forced into emergency measures, including releasing thousands of inmates early, to cope with overflowing jails.
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.
Federal deficit possible, study says
We get that. There is no point in coming on and using your usual Rhetoric 101 trick of discrediting the source, the reporter, the paper, and anyone else in the partisan drivel supply chain. The source does that. Posted 14/01/08 at 10:02 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
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