Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which seems to enjoy producing controversy as much as classics, the settlement was a victory. For the rest of us, the settlement is a minor defeat, weakening some important but usually unrecognized ideas about the protection of intellectual property...
...harvest. The guerrillas' demand on behalf of the workers: about $4 for each 100 lbs. of coffee beans picked, plus food and medical care. The rebels also wanted a slice of the harvest action: a "tip" of about $5 for each 500 lbs. of beans. The alternative to a settlement was a return to the kind of armed harassment of the harvest that has been commonplace in El Salvador in past years...
Meanwhile, the Navy settled with General Dynamics, paying $634 million of $843 million in excess costs claimed by the company for construction of the SSN-688 Los Angeles-class attack submarines. Rickover bitterly criticized the settlement...
...people who have suffered at the hands of those rich sons of bitches." But others saw less admirable reasons for the legal presence. Said Mont Hoyt, chairman of the American Bar Association's international law and practice section: "They're trying to get a piece of the settlement...
...swept out of office in favor of the United Democratic Party, which won 55% of the popular vote and 21 of the 28 seats in Parliament. U.D.P. Leader Manuel Esquivel, 44, the new Prime Minister, said he will "pursue good relations with the United States" and work for settlement of a territorial dispute with neighboring Guatemala, but his policies are not expected to differ much from those of his predecessor. So lopsided was the vote that Price lost his own Belize City seat to the U.D.P.'s Derek Aikman, 25, a newcomer to politics...