In addition to the disciplinary data, the Directory provides investors with an overview of the brokerage industry and a methodology for analyzing brokerages.

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The Directory provides investors with important data regarding certain criminal charges and convictions, regulatory actions, civil judicial actions, and certain financial actions, such as bankruptcies, unsatisfied judgments or liens.

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This physician directory has three different kinds of data, all free: peer reviews from other physicians, a report card with data like where they went to medical school, and consumer reviews.

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We helped Treasury compile and publish a directory of over 50 high-value data sets that software developers can use to help consumers understand and manage their finances.

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The Directory provides investors with important publicly available data regarding certain criminal charges and convictions, regulatory actions, civil judicial actions, and certain financial actions, such as bankruptcies, unsatisfied judgements or liens.

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The main problem with these arguments is that the data we reported, with help from the American Hospital Directory, comes from the hospitals themselves.

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Using data and advice from William Shoemaker at the American Hospital Directory, we looked at several thousand hospitals with 200 beds or more and ranked them by operating margin.

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The Directory can be helpful to investors by providing them with industry-wide and firm specific data.

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