Fuzzy, leave-the-details-to-be-sorted-out-by-the-courts legislation is attractive to the Congressman who wants credit for addressing a national problem but does not have the time (or perhaps the votes) to grapple with the nitty-gritty .
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Apple wants people who credit their teams, instead of saying they accomplished tasks all by themselves.
But in his budget message, he wants to take credit for those results.
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Another is that Clinton badly wants that same credit for himself.
Everyone wants to claim some credit for sponsoring a bill reforming intelligence, hence the competing proposals.
Clinton wants to give the credit to low income workers who already get a break on their taxes because they fall below the poverty line.
In addition to the problem of switching costs, another problem for someone who wants to join a credit union is that they might not be eligible for membership.
The world's top credit card company wants to rule all electronic payments--once it overhauls its computers.
The engineers in Redmond deserve a little more credit than Hachamovitch wants to give.
The government wants to introduce standards for credit-card costs, access and terms, similar to those it has established for mortgage-providers.
The council wants more people to use credit unions as an alternative and is also calling for more financial education in schools.
If a department store or credit card company wants to call you 50 times a day at all hours and berate you mercilessly, the FDCPA will not protect you.
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Mr McCain also wants to expand education saving accounts and introduce a tax credit for donating to schools, while Mr Bush wants to make charitable giving tax-deductible.
And he wants to make permanent a tax credit to help college students pay for tuition over four years.
Today if a bank wants to issue a letter of credit (LOC), they come into our client portal to do that and submit their LOC app through our proprietary portal.
In the process, after the carbon that is kept earthbound as a result is tallied, it can be sold as a carbon credit to anyone who wants to offset their own carbon dioxide emissions.
It also wants an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, an expanded saver's credit and a permanent exclusion from capital gains taxes on small business investment. (Does anyone think green energy tax credits will vanish anytime soon?) One ghost that keeps returning: the research credit, first introduced in 1981, which allows companies to write off a portion of their research and development expenses.
Already, the Treasury wants banks to share small firms' credit histories to enhance competition.
To see why, consider a credit-card firm that wants to find customers online.
If President-elect Obama wants to be a hero and get credit for pulling the economy out of the ditch, he has to get capital off the strike line.
On the one hand, he wants to talk up the economy and take credit for it, as any politician heading into elections would.
Among other things Germany's top central banker wants to avoid a home replay of the credit and property boom whose excesses have been so harmful in Spain.
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"We spend a lot of money in the state bringing movie production here, post-production here, so obviously we would want to facilitate that, " said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who wants to expand the film and TV tax credit.
The Dublin-based gaming company better known for giving some 60, 000 subscribers the ability to wager on ponies, sporting events and the outcome of celebrity criminal trials online, wants to offer trading in weather events, credit risks and economic indicators.
Indeed, the island province of Hainan off the southern coast even wants to leapfrog such decades-old technologies as credit and debit cards and automated teller machines and move directly to microchip-laden smart cards.
Mr Bush wants to encourage family formation by doubling the child tax credit and removing the marriage penalty or even introducing a marriage bonus.
He wants to include other companies involved in all sorts of credit that's extended to everyday people: car loans, student loans, and credit cards.
They give me far too much credit: I'm an English major who wants Swarthmore to be a place where ideas are freely exchanged.
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