"If you scale back the government guarantee too much, then you end up with a really segmented market where people who have pristine credit scores and lots of money can get good, safe, well-priced mortgages, but everybody else can't".
"If you are pastoring, like I do, you know that sometimes people come up short and need a little help". That type of help, he said, is easier to secure through a payday lender than a traditional bank, which may be reluctant to lend small amounts and require pristine credit scores.
Certainly, the United States military's past history is not pristine on this score.
The real heartburn started when that M.B.F.S. rep claimed that keeping Ms. Hooley's credit score pristine was her problem.
He needed all of those birdies — along with one eagle — to keep ahead on a pristine day for scoring along the Maui coastline.
It is a big, shiny place with gigantic graph-paper grids printed on many of the walls; pale dot paintings; expanses of gleaming glass, mirror and stainless steel; and scores of pristine, beautifully presented objects -- elements that frequently coalesce into moments of clarity and beauty and something approximating wisdom.
Fair or unfair, the smallest thing can keep a student from not being admitted even if their grades and test scores are pristine.
In actual application situations, lenders who want to increase their loan business to home buyers may dig deeper into the credit pool and offer relatively more attractive rate deals to people whose scores are not pristine.
All of these factors, and especially the pristine putting surfaces, ensured low scoring.
Kids have pristine records with no real credit score of their own.
