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...they're done," says Julian Lipson, head of the family law team at London law firm Withers. Exceptions might be made if one party lies about their assets, or if "in very short succession after the order has been made, a completely unforeseeable change renders the basis of the agreement wrong," Lipson says. Otherwise, "a final order is a final order. And that's that...
Chrysler's demand that the CAW slash labor costs by 25% caught the industry by surprise because it breaks with the time-honored tradition of pattern bargaining - in which an agreement by one of the automakers with the union sets the pattern for the others. Earlier this week the CAW gave up a special annual bonus and agreed to a reduction in paid time off in reaching a deal with General Motors. But that deal was criticized by some in the industry as insufficient. Indeed, Ford Motor Co. said Friday it will also reject the GM-CAW deal...
...shop] is my livelihood,” he said. “It’s my business. I brought up a family doing this.” William W. Bloomstein, an Agassiz resident since 1994, said that there had been an implicit agreement between Harvard and the community that “the Bence Building was going to be protected for a long time.” But Bloomstein added that he did not “see this as Harvard reneging on a promise,” as it was necessary to vacate the building for environmental reasons...
...Another unexcitable voice, from the laconic flatlands of North Dakota - Senator Kent Conrad - warned on March 10 that Obama's $3.6 trillion budget is already in trouble on Capitol Hill. Democrats may be in power, but they aren't all in agreement with Obama's do-it-all-now approach to solving the nation's most persistent problems. "Anybody who thinks it will be easy to get the votes on the budget in the conditions that we face is smoking something," Conrad declared...
...bipartisan group of nine U.S. Senators, after meeting for nine months behind closed doors, is nearing an agreement on the broad strokes of a health-care-reform bill. The so-called Gang of Nine - though its number expands and contracts depending on the meeting - is hammering out the finer points as they prepare to enter the drafting phase of the negotiations, sources from three Senate offices involved in the talks told TIME...