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Mel Cox, director of the credit bureau, says it doesn't set credit ratings or advise members on the advisability of giving credit. Its role is to collect facts and pass them on to clients. Almost a million credit histories are on the firm's files.
Mel Cox, director of the credit bureau, says it doesn't set credit ratings or advise members on the advisability of giving credit. Its role is to collect facts and pass them on to clients. Almost a million credit histories are on the firm's files.

Mel Cox, director of the credit bureau, says it doesn't set credit ratings or advise members on the advisability of giving credit. Its role is to collect facts and pass them on to clients. Almost a million credit histories are on the firm's files.

Date8/12/1971
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  • Mel Cox, director of the credit bureau, says it doesn't set credit ratings or advise members on the advisability of giving credit. Its role is to collect facts and pass them on to clients. Almost a million credit histories are on the firm's files.
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Dilemma facing analysts in current trend of firms buying back own shares from minority shareholder is how to advise their clients
Dilemma facing analysts in current trend of firms buying back own shares from minority shareholder is how to advise their clients
Loek, Dick
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Percy Smith, 20, has a nice number, thank you, as the first male telephone operator at the Credit Bureau of Greater Toronto
Percy Smith, 20, has a nice number, thank you, as the first male telephone operator at the Credit Bureau of Greater Toronto
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Toast to success: Divorce mediator Barry Brown says he sometimes advises his clients to sit down to a dinner, with wine while they discuss their problems and look for solutions.
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Bull, Ron
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Business is Booming, for Laurier Life and here's a deskful of new orders for the company's president, Ernest Brooker. With no salesmen and using only direct-mail promotion techniques, Laurier Life has found a big insurance market in areas - such as older clients - long-established firms sometimes neglect.
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Barkley, Harold
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Lennon, Frank
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Travelling salesman: Credit cards haven't hurt the prospects for travellers' cheques, says Sir John Cuckney, chairman of the Thomas Cook group. He told Canadian bankers yesterday the company has major plans for Canada, the second-biggest market in the world.
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Beaty, Keith
10/19/1981
Cyril Sapiro: Trustee says people's brains come unglued when they deal with credit.
Cyril Sapiro: Trustee says people's brains come unglued when they deal with credit.
Toronto Star (Firm)
1/16/1990
Black year: George May, chief executive officer of the national credit union organization Canadian Co-operative Society Ltd
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Daniel Ng, Hong Kong: Gives the firm credit for upgrading his country's diet.
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Mahler, John
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Anish Kirpalani, Port Credit Secondary School
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6/6/1991
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Calleja, Frank
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Money, not ideas, is what's lacking for Steve Doyle. A designer with five children to support, he can make products for schools hospitals and stores. But there's a credit squeeze on, and lack of capital may force him out of business.
Money, not ideas, is what's lacking for Steve Doyle. A designer with five children to support, he can make products for schools hospitals and stores. But there's a credit squeeze on, and lack of capital may force him out of business.
Darrell, Dick
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