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Under this plan, faculty members shed some of their duties, carrying a lesser teaching load for a limited number of years before retiring. Payment and benefits under the plan vary. For instance, MIT's plan allows faculty to teach full-time while receiving 60 percent of their salary. In the FAS, faculty on half-time status receive half their salary, whereas at the Law School salary arrangements are negotiated with the dean...
...fine for weeks, to lend a hand. Duberstein gently told a sometimes tearful Marianne that her husband would be crushed politically if he didn't pay the debt himself, now or on installment. He said Dole's generous offer gave the Speaker a long time to make the payment--and would buy Gingrich time to consolidate his shaky position in the House. "There's an old adage," Duberstein said later. "'It's better to die tomorrow than to die today.' Marianne came to understand that Newt had to do this...
When they did, Philip Morris boss Geoffrey Bible and RJR chief Steven Goldstone, who attended the first meeting held near Washington on April 3, put on the table some remarkable concessions: sweeping curbs on sales and marketing practices, and the payment of hundreds of billions of dollars in compensation. But in exchange, the two companies sought nothing less than blanket immunity from all present and future liability complaints...
...Gingrich, one of the ring leaders of the "keep campaign finance clean" cabal, get smacked with a fine of $300,000 and a reprimand imposed on him for ethics violations because he used tax-exempt funds to fund his own party, but also, he is now considering avoiding personal payment (and responsibility) by paying for that fine through the use of a legal defense fund...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The two largest cigarette makers in the U.S. are negotiating a sweeping settlement with lawyers from eight states that could give the industry broad legal shelter in return for a possible payment of as much as $300 billion over the next 25 years. The talks, which began about two weeks ago, may bring concessions long considered unthinkable by the tobacco industry: accepting some regulation by the FDA, disclosing the hundreds of chemical additives in cigarettes, and banning outdoor advertising and the use of people in ads. Why, after nearly four decades of successfully fighting off lawsuits, would...