Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third-quarter earnings fell 43%, largely because of the one-week walkout by U.S. workers in September. Securities analysts figure that the first seven days of the Canadian strike cost GM $35 million; the losses would have risen to $135 million a week if there had not been a settlement...
Kramer vs. Kramer, for all its exposure of the pangs of divorce for Mom and Dad, portrayed the children of divorce as the emotional equivalent of furniture, just another trinket to split in the final settlement. Firstborn looks at the American family in the aftermath of divorce and examines the furniture that must grow up with "new relationship" Skillfully avoiding the artistic temptation to transform the Livingston family into Every Family and the film into The Social Statement, Firstborn draws us into a painful and complex story that may be one of this year's best films...
...Cardinal Casaroli, the Vatican Secretary of State, presided as representatives of Argentina and Chile signed copies of a document marking the end of almost six years of mediation and decades of mutual hostility. The dispute involved the Beagle Channel, which lies at the southern tip of South America. The settlement clarifies each country's territorial and water rights in the waterway and recognizes Chilean sovereignty over three main channel islands, as well as seven smaller ones...
...over the channel since 1902. When the Vatican first intervened in 1978, the two neighbors were on the brink of war following the collapse of efforts to mediate the dispute by the U.N. Security Council and the Organization of American States. Argentina will hold a referendum on the Vatican settlement Nov. 25, but the result is not binding on the Argentine Congress, which, along with its rubber-stamp Chilean counterpart, is nonetheless expected to ratify the agreement...
...labor costs are $7.50 an hour less than the $22.50 an hour that GM pays in the U.S., because of the shrunken value of the Canadian dollar and the fact that the Canadian government picks up most healthcare costs. As a result, White argues, GM can afford a richer settlement in Canada than...