Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Normally, the SEC settles cases of "insider trading," a civil offense, with a "consent decree," in which the defendant neither admits nor denies guilt but promises to obey the law in the future. Thayer's settlement talks with the Government, however, have so far proved fruitless, in part because he has reportedly balked at a full public airing of the facts of the case...
...University Police Captain Jack W. Morse characterized the settlement as "equitable...
...with terrible birth defects because their mothers had taken the medicine during pregnancy. Litigation between parents and the drug's manufacturer had dragged on for a decade, in legally ordained secrecy. Evans' campaign spurred a wave of indignation on the victims' behalf and hastened an adequate settlement...
...withdrawal from Lebanon. Sooner or later, in the view of many Middle East experts in the U.S. and Western Europe, Syria must be brought into negotiations for a Palestinian homeland. As one senior British diplomat puts it: "Like it or not, Syria is the key to a Middle East settlement...
...tentative settlement announced last week in the strike by the Amalgamated Transit Union against Greyhound bus lines is the latest ripple in a cascade of union defeats. Workers are expected to vote this week on cuts in wages and benefits amounting to 14%. But the pay concessions themselves were far less significant than the manner in which they were achieved. Although the union put on a defiant show of solidarity and won widespread popular support, it was unable to influence the company...