Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week picked General Motors as its "target" for a strike if an industry contract is not reached by the Sept. 14 deadline. Unlike the four confrontations, all of which ended in strikes, the prebargaining negotiations remained uncharacteristically restrained and calm, and prospects for a no-strike settlement seem reasonable...
...happy if a conflict broke out between Algeria and Morocco," the King declared. "We would both come out of it so weakened as to ensure his leadership in North Africa." At the same time, he went out of his way to be conciliatory toward Algeria and invited a negotiated settlement...
...similar, private offer of negotiations last year, Hassan had arranged to meet secretly with Houari Boumedienne, but the Algerian President's fatal illness forced a cancellation. Now it is more difficult than ever to see the outline of a possible settlement. Algeria has little to lose by continuing to support the Polisario so long as its own troops are not involved and Libya continues to provide much of the rebels' financing. For its part, Morocco is clearly not willing to give up any of its annexed real estate peaceably. Besides his own irredentist impulse, Hassan also...
Insurers for the airlines are understandably eager to head off the lawyers by getting to the next of kin first and offering them a quick settlement. A week after the Flight 191 crash, the insurer for American Airlines sent a three-page letter to the relatives of all the passengers. Extending his "sincere condolences" and detailing the insurers' plans to pay funeral expenses. Robert Alpert, vice president of the United States Aviation Underwriters, offered to settle any damage claims. Then came some pointed advice. "It is also our hope," wrote Alpert, "that you ultimately retain as much...
...provide quick, indisputable and fair compensation for victims' families in the future, Kennelly suggests a system of no-fault insurance. Uniform guidelines would be established that would specify the settlement for each heir, weighing the same factors - victim's age, income and so forth - that a court now considers before making awards. Kennelly acknowledges at least one consequence of hi proposal: "If they standardize awards, it does away with...