Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Court, officials of both states last week announced they had joined with the estate to reach a compromise: Texas will receive $50 million; California, $44 million in cash plus a $75 million parcel of land near Los Angeles International Airport. Texas' Attorney General Jim Mattox boasted that the settlement would finance the state's annual cost of operating the agriculture department, the public utilities commission and the attorney general's office. Less ecstatic was Hughes' cousin William Lummis, who is administering the estate on behalf of 32 heirs. Said he: "I think they nicked us pretty...
...thousands of Viet Nam veterans, the longest battle of America's most unpopular war still rages-in U.S. courtrooms. Last May a $180 million settlement was reached in the class-action suit against seven chemical companies that manufactured Agent Orange, the dioxin-contaminated defoliant that the military sprayed over Viet Nam from 1965 to 1970. The plaintiffs claimed that Agent Orange had caused, among other things, skin disorders in many of the soldiers and birth defects in some of their children. Judge Jack Weinstein of New York, who worked out the mass-damage award, is now holding hearings...
...that progress had been made, but a pact remained elusive. Likud and Labor representatives also met to settle differences over foreign policy. Though both parties agreed that Israel should withdraw its 22,000 troops from southern Lebanon, there was disagreement over other key issues, including the pace of Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank...
...ranging impact on affirmative-action programs in many industries, followed a five-year Labor Department investigation of the company's hiring practices. Prudential, wary of a potential Government suit and mindful of its $50 million worth of business with federal agencies and their employees, agreed to the compromise settlement...
...settlement will also aid the company's female employees. It calls for the firm to take a hard look at how new women agents are paid to determine if they are being discriminated against. Prudential, it seems, is moving to make life on the Rock a little more equitable for everyone...