Word: settlements
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...economic concentration. The Burger Court has backed the Reagan Administration's view that the real antitrust test should not be size but economic efficiency. Some experts think that the Burger Court would not have ordered the breakup of A T & T, which was the result of a settlement in a federal district court...
Although some sticking points remain, notably the fate of about 2.5 million residents of the colony entitled to hold Hong Kong British passports, any settlement at all was welcome after the rocky and rancorous negotiations. As the expiration date on the British lease approached, Hong Kong businesses planning 15-year loans and long-term projects grew increasingly uncomfortable. In September 1982, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her triumph in the Falkland Islands, went to Peking and, somewhat injudiciously, declared that Britain would "stick by" its treaties regarding Hong Kong. For their part, the Chinese insisted that the issue...
Others traced the continuing series of terrorist acts to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982. Said a British government official: "Until there is a just Palestinian settlement that assures Israel's statehood and security and grants self-determination to the Palestinians, there will be no ending to the sort of violence we have seen this week." Some Middle East experts, including William Quandt of the Brookings Institution, advocate closer U.S. ties with Syria as a possible way of reducing the risks of such terrorism. Quandt argues that neither Syria nor any of the other main powers...
...excellent settlement that makes more secure than ever in history the jobs of our members, while providing much deserved economic improvements immediately and in the years ahead." That bold claim by Owen Bieber, president of the United Auto Workers, at 2:20 last Friday morning, brought to an end three months of intense negotiations between General Motors and its workers. The agreement on a new three-year contract raised hopes that the auto industry, which is now enjoying a boom, will be spared a long and damaging strike...
Those pay provisions seem to represent a victory for GM. Said Alfred Nelson, an industry analyst with Wall Street investment firm Becker-Paribas: "GM has clearly got the better part of the bargain. The settlement is yet another indication of the shift of power from labor to management...