Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is little evidence, however, to suggest that the court system is more effective in dealing with status offenders. Recently mediation has represented an increasingly popular alternative to in-court settlement of disputes in many areas. At the Harvard Law School, Professor Frank Sander offers a course which trains student in dispute resolution techniques and then placed them in actual mediation programs...
Until the votes were counted, however, the outcome was far from certain. Only four weeks ago, the Chrysler workers overwhelmingly rejected a contract settlement agreed to by the company and the U.A.W. leadership. The deal called for cost of living raises starting in December that would have added an estimated 5%, or 50? an hour, to the average worker's pay by June 1983. The company also promised wage bonuses linked to Chrysler's future profits. But the workers, who have not had any kind of pay raise in two years, wanted an immediate raise...
...University of Pennsylvania recently reached an out of court settlement with Assistant Comptroller William Drye, who sued the university on charges of racial discrimination...
...sides arrived at an agreement just before the first scheduled court hearing on October 12, but neither side has officially released the terms of the settlement...
Qaboos (pronounced Caboose) has been the only leader in the region to support openly the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's separate peace with Israel and to endorse the Camp David agreements. Like Ronald Reagan, Qaboos feels that the most realistic possibility for a Middle East settlement is some form of Jordanian-Palestinian confederation once Israel has returned most of the West Bank to Jordan...