Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stake was the future of the 1.3 million Palestinians who live in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's goal is to accelerate the Jewish settlement of the West Bank, filling it with so many Israelis that the process of colonization will be irreversible. Indeed, on the same day the talks between Arafat and Hussein broke down, Israeli newspapers reported a government plan to build 57 more settlements in the West Bank, in order to achieve the goal of putting 100,000 Israeli settlers in the territory by 1986. Arafat...
Obviously, the Hospital Corporation agreed to settle out of court for two reasons they wanted to avoid the unsavory publicity of a trial, and they believe a jury would have awarded an even higher settlement. Yet even with this settlement, too much money has changed hands...
...distasteful to think that this money is nothing more than a sort of casual pacifier tossed to the Ferrises by HCA; Andrea's erased future cannot be quantified into dollars and cents. Although the settlement probably does not represent anything so consciously insensitive, people in this country are too quick to sue. Yelling for large sums of money has become the accepted way of resolving disagreements and solving problems--burying them in a mountain of dollar bills...
...court settlement, NYU, the nation's largest privately endowed university, promised to follow a set of 1976 guidelines that set minimal standards for the "fair use" of copyright materials, and said it would ensure that its faculty followed suit...
...fertile valley 200 miles east of Johannesburg, the village of Driefontein is a picture of rural contentment. Flower beds front its comfortable houses, cattle browse in lush pastures, and fruit trees abound. But Driefontein is different: it is a so-called "black spot," an area of black settlement surrounded mainly by white farmers. For several years, in keeping with South Africa's policy of apartheid, the government has tried to persuade the 7,000 black farmers of Driefontein to move to black "homelands" in the desolate Kangwane and Kwazulu regions. The blacks have bitterly resisted the move, and last...