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"ref": "1970, Hardware Age, volume 205, New York, N.Y.: David Williams Co., →OCLC, page 8, column 1",
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"ref": "2012, Linda A. Jenkins, “What is Social Lending?”, in Creative Financing: How to Get a Small Business Loan without a Banker, Gold Alliance Group, page 1",
"text": "Where a bank may automatically reject any borrower based on a bad credit score, this is not true for all social lending networks. You can still have a less than stellar score and obtain funding as long as you can convince a peer tha your project is worthy or your business model is strong.",
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"ref": "2014, Ron Weisner, Alan Goldsher, “The Jacksons”, in Listen Out Loud: A Life in Music—Managing McCartney, Madonna, and Michael Jackson, Guildford, Conn.: Lyons Press, page 83",
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"ref": "2015, David Kosař, “Selecting Strasbourg Judges: A Critique”, in Michal Bobek, editor, Selecting Europe’s Judges: A Critical Review of the Appointment Procedures to the European Courts, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 157",
"text": "Instead of discussing how to attract top candidates, states and PACE [the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe] blame each other for being responsible for electing less-than-stellar judges. […] At the same time, less-than-stellar candidates will get the message that they indeed have a chance. In other words, top candidates will not apply as the PACE is unpredictable and unprincipled, whereas less-than-stellar candidates will apply precisely because the PACE is unpredictable and unprincipled.",
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"ref": "2015, Dan Immergluck, “The Housing Finance Debate”, in Preventing the Next Mortgage Crisis: The Meltdown, the Federal Response, and the Future of Housing in America, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, page 136",
"text": "In effect, risk-based pricing creates a penalty for those in the mortgage market with less wealth and less-than-stellar credit. Other estimates on the interest-rate premiums that borrowers with less-than-stellar credit would face exceed the conservative estimates presented in figure 5.3.",
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"ref": "2016 November 18, Daniel Golden, “How did ‘less than stellar’ high school student Jared Kushner get into Harvard?: Donald Trump’s son-in-law was accepted into the Ivy League university in the wake of a $2.5m pledge made by his parents”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-11-19",
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