The system is composed of three credit services, Federal Land Banks and National Farm Loan Associations, Federal Intermediate ( short-term ) Credit Banks, and Banks for Cooperatives.

Credit for organizing the backbone about 1983 is commonly attributed to Gene " Spaf " Spafford, although it is also claimed by Mark Horton.

* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.

A recent report by Credit Suisse on Pakistan's stock market is a testimonial to its strong fundamentals, estimating Pakistan ’ s relative return on equities at 26. 7 percent, compared to Asia ’ s 11 percent.

* Is less effective than other methods ( e. g. the Earned Income Tax Credit ) at reducing poverty, and is more damaging to businesses than those other methods.

The library on the main campus is called the W. A. C. Bennett Library, named after the Social Credit Premier of B. C.

Credit meter is a visual LED display of the amount of money or credits on the machine.

Credit for the invention of the electric telephone is frequently disputed, and new controversies over the issue have arisen from time to time.

Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.

Credit for the storm — called a kamikaze, or divine wind — is given by the Japanese to the god Raiden.

Credit for the storm — called a kamikaze, or divine wind — is given by the Japanese to the god Raiden.

On the consumer level, loans against securities have grown into three distinct groups over the last decade: 1 ) Standard Institutional Loans, generally offering low loan-to-value with very strict call and coverage regimens, akin to standard margin loans ; 2 ) Transfer-of-Title ( ToT ) Loans, typically provided by private parties where borrower ownership is completely extinguished save for the rights provided in the loan contract ; and 3 ) Non-Transfer-of-Title Credit Line facilities where shares are not sold and they serve as assets in a standard lien-type line of cash credit.

Credit is generally given to the artist Andy Warhol for popularizing screen printing identified as serigraphy, in the United States.

* Credit: Award that is just below a distinction

A " CA " logo, for example, is used by the French Bank Credit Agricole, the Dutch Clothing Retailer C & A and the US Software Corporation CA Technologies, but only one can have the internet domain name CA. com.

The Farm Credit Administration is an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the federal government of the United States.

Credit card redlining is a spatially discriminatory practice among credit card issuers, of providing different amounts of credit to different areas, based on their ethnic-minority composition, rather than on economic criteria, such as the potential profitability of operating in those areas.

The largest indoor ceremony in Canada is usually held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with over 9, 000 gathering in Credit Union Centre in 2010 ;

Credit for the invention of the blastpipe is disputed, though Stephenson used it as early as 1814.

The film Mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ), on which O ' Brien is credited as Technical Creator, won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1950. Credit for the award went to the films producers, RKO Productions, but O ' Brien was also awarded a statue.

AXA is one of the world's largest insurance companies ; Air France is the world's largest airline company in incomes ; L ' Oreal is the world's largest cosmetic company ; LVMH and PPR are the world's largest and second-largest luxury product companies respectively ; GDF-Suez is the world's largest energy company ; EDF is the world's largest utility company ; Areva is a large nuclear-energy company ; Veolia Environnement is the world's largest environmental services and water management company ; VINCI, Bouygues and Eiffage are respectively world's 1st, 2nd and 4th building and public work companies ; Michelin is the world's pneumatic leader ; Lafarge is the world's largest cement company ; JCDecaux is the world's largest outdoor advertising corporation ; BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole and Societe Generale are respectively the world's 1st, 6th and 8th biggest banks in assets in 2010 ;

In 2002, a one-tenth hour bill was introduced, partly due to the encouragement and funding from Alternatives Federal Credit Union and feedback from retailers who complained about the awkwardness of only having larger denominations to work with ; the bills bear the signatures of both HOURS President Steve Burke and the president of AFCU.

Credit for Centralia College surviving during these difficult times is in part given to Margaret Corbet, administrator, faculty member, and namesake of Corbet Hall, due to her efforts to keep the college financially afloat.

Riding high in the polls, it appeared that the party was poised to win the 1986 election against the unpopular Social Credit government of the day but due to a minor verbal gaffe by its new leader Bob Skelly during the campaign and the surprising charisma and telegenic performance of the Socreds ' new leader William Vander Zalm, the party failed to score its anticipated breakthrough.

In 1991, due in part to Social Credit's scandal-plagued final term in office under Premier William Vander Zalm and in part to the stellar performance of then – British Columbia Liberal Party ( BC Liberals ) leader Gordon Wilson in the televised leader's debate, the old Social Credit vote split between the BC Liberals, which garnered 33 % of the vote and BC Social Credit Party with 25 %.

In 2001, at the behest of former leader Vander Zalm, the Social Credit Party merged with other provincial right-wing parties to form the Unity Party, but soon left due to dissatisfaction with the way the party was run.

Social Credit was never able to form a provincial government in Quebec due to the near dominance of social conservative votes by the Union Nationale party from the 1930s into the 1960s.

* Credit default risk-The risk of loss arising from a debtor being unlikely to pay its loan obligations in full or the debtor is more than 90 days past due on any material credit obligation ; default risk may impact all credit-sensitive transactions, including loans, securities and derivatives.

The birth of the Cooperative Extension Service, Rural Free Delivery, and the Farm Credit System were largely due to Grange lobbying.

Partly due to this, and partly due to an exceptionally poor campaign, Cracknell was not re-elected in the 1969 elections, returning Sloane to parliament and depriving Social Credit of its only seat.

Political scientists debate how much of this was due to Social Credit policies and how much was merely a " protest vote " against the established parties, but one poll recorded Social Credit with as much as 30 % of the vote.

In the 1944 election, the CCF received 24 % of the vote, but was able to win only 2 seats, due to the single transferable vote system and the dominance of Social Credit which received over 50 % of ballots cast.

Standard Grades () are Scotland's educational qualifications for students aged around 14 to 16 years, which are due to be fully replaced in 2014 when Scottish Qualifications Authority's Higher Still system becomes the main qualifications as part of the major shake up of Scotland's education system as part of Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework overhaul.

Even and the Union broke with the national Social Credit organization in 1947 due to Ernest Manning's increasingly hostile attitude towards them and his purge of anti-Semites from the movement.

In America the speculative nature of financing due to both the greenback which was paper currency issued to pay for the US Civil War and rampant fraud in the building of the Union Pacific Railway up to 1869 culminated in the Credit Mobilier panic.

Prior to the 1982 Alberta election, Raymond Speaker and Walt Buck left the Alberta Social Credit Party and ran as Independents due to a collapse of their party and problems with organization and leadership.

As a result of Clark's refusal to extend recognition to Social Credit its MPs abstained in the Non-Confidence vote that brought down the Clark government on December 13, 1979, a defeat caused by the Social Credit abstention and the absence of a handful of Tory MPs due to illness or travel.

This allowed the Tories to pick up not only Social Credit seats, but also proved decisive in many seats previously held by the Liberals and CCF due to vote splitting between the Conservatives and Social Credit.

In 1935, the United Farmers of Alberta passed a bill creating a provincial insurance program, but they lost office later that year and the Social Credit Party scrapped the plan due to the financial situation in the province.

Credit risks due to settlement lags are eliminated.

He also expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit, a subsidy for low-income workers.

Mises had earlier applied the concept of marginal utility to the value of money in his Theory of Money and Credit ( 1912 ), in which he also proposed an explanation for " industrial fluctuations " based on the ideas of the old British Currency School and of Swedish economist Knut Wicksell.

BCCI also acquired parallel banks through acquisitions: buying the Banque de Commerce et Placements ( BCP ) of Geneva in 1976, and creating KIFCO ( Kuwait International Finance Company ), Credit & Finance Corporation Ltd, and a series of Cayman-based companies held together as ICIC ( International Credit and Investment Company Overseas, International Credit and Commerce, etc .).

Credit should also be given to two Top 20 hits in 1963: Mongo Santamaría's performance of the Herbie Hancock piece " Watermelon Man " and Ray Barretto's " El Watusi ," which in a sense, established the basic boogaloo formula.

He was an advocate of low business taxes, but also passed the Earned Income Credit and other tax legislation beneficial to the poor and working people.

It is also the home of the corporate headquarters for Eagle Community Credit Union, a credit union focused on serving postal and federal employees who live or work in Orange County.

Chicopee is also home to Alden Credit Union, The Polish National Credit Union and Chicopee Savings Bank.

* Louis Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night ( 1932 ), as well as " Death on Credit " ( also, " Death on an Installment Plan ") and subsequent books as well.

At the time, he was also an organizer among immigrants for the Ralliement des créditistes, Quebec's Social Credit party.

The notice must also identify the consumer ’ s right to opt out of the information being shared with unaffiliated parties pursuant to the provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

It was also agreed to favourably consider a Line of Credit for US $ 5 million for priority projects to be identified by the STP side in the fields of agriculture, capacity building and infrastructure.

Credit rating agencies may also play a key role in structured financial transactions.

Restraining orders may also be enforced across state lines, in accordance with the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U. S. Constitution via the National Crime Information Center database.

In the year 2006, the Earned Income Tax Credit lifted more than four million people above the poverty line and was called “ the nation ’ s most effective antipoverty program for working families .” Long also initiated the provision that allows a taxpayer to allocate $ 1 of taxes for a Presidential election campaign fund checkoff ( the " dollar checkoff ").

The Irish banks had invested heavily in loans to property developers and were facing ruin as result of the property markets ' collapse and also the international ' Credit crunch ' or drying up of loans from abroad.

Credit for the ghostwriter may also be provided as a " thanks " in a foreword or introduction.

This same convention also altered the name of the party to the British Columbia Social Credit Party.

Federal credit unions may also be members of the National Association of Federal Credit Unions ( NAFCU ).

Filene also created the Credit Union National Extension Bureau, the forerunner of the Credit Union National Association, which was formed as a confederation of state leagues at a meeting in Estes Park, Colorado, in 1934.