cosigner

If your own credit is too poor to get a personal loan, consider using someone else with good credit as a cosigner. Usually, this person is a close friend or family member who agrees to make loan payments if you default on it.

<p>The 37 cosigners of the letter note that using the secure protocol is an option for Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar, but have a problem with the way users are told about it.

BRUCE ACKERMAN AND Todd Gitlin call Tony Judt's claim ["We Answer to the Name of Liberals," November] that liberals have "acquiesced in President Bush's catastrophic foreign policy," "nonsense on stilts." Supposedly, they and their numerous cosigners "consistently and publicly repudiated the ruinous policies of the Bush administration."

NLC's Grassroots Action Center went into action to drive up the number of cosigners by sending e-mail alerts to the state municipal leagues and NLC members, and posting an action alert on NLC's website, encouraging NLC members to urge their representatives to add their name to the Shays/Frank letter.

And, if you're a lender, there are cosigners with hefty assets living under the same roof as well: boomer parents.

Goss fails to mention that in 1996, he was among the cosigners of a commission report that called for more staff cuts in the intelligence agencies, arguing that intelligence spending was still 80 percent above 1980 levels.