The credit boards have that part down.
On the credit boards, even serious debt is morally acceptable, while credit-reporting agencies are vilified and "BK7" — Chapter 7 bankruptcy — is deemed "the Mark of the Beast".
A 20-page thread on Credit Boards about the opaque "preselection" option that some credit cards offer started two years ago and is still going.
Their dull, interchangeable names — Credit Boards, Fico Forums, CreditNet — conceal the passion, fury, ingenuity, magical thinking and staggering greed that define these uneasy places.
Consider — or, rather, try to decode — this post from Credit Boards from March 2008: "I just couldn't resist it after reading someone's post that said no hard was pulled for the AMEX preapproved application for existing card members.
The school has peer review groups, known as credit boards, which enforce academic standards so vigorously that some students receive only partial credit for a class, and at times could receive none at all, Mr. Goldberg said.
Their goal, say the authors, was "relatively little bureaucracy in Washington combined with much implementation delegated either to the states or to public-private entities like farm credit boards" that could redistribute resources while preserving racial hierarchy.
Certain faiths and denominations require you to be a member of their church for one year, must be referred to the crediting board by the minister of a church within that denomination, must be granted approval by the board, get accepted into school, graduate with a certain grade point average, etc. etc. etc.
He had been criticised for a property deal and charges to his school board credit card.
In the absence of Joy and Sadness, Anger takes over, motivating Riley to steal her mother's credit card and board a bus back to Minnesota.
