Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more entertaining and more lively than at any time since the war," the critic Edmund Wilson reported in the New Republic. "Everywhere in the streets and offices you run into old acquaintances . . . the 'progressive' young instructors from the colleges, the intelligent foundation workers, the practical idealists of settlement houses, the radicals who are not too radical not to conceive that there may be just a chance of turning the old order inside out." Not everyone admired these newcomers, of course. Judge Learned Hand, of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, called them "so conceited, so insensitive...
...months have passed since the tenants agreed with Harvard to seek a private settlement to the controversy. In early January there were signs that the parties were nearing a satisfactory conclusion to the dispute, but tenants said yesterday--emphasizing that they had not given up their efforts to gain concessions from the University over its future housing policy--that a settlement may still be a long...
...around Harvard's future housing policies, Scammell said yesterday. The tenants at one time had hoped to force Harvard to admit it had violated the removal ordinance by intentionally keeping several Craigie apartments off the market, but Kuehne said yesterday that no such statement would be included in the settlement...
...addition to the problem of Harvard's future housing policy, there have been other recent, indications that the proposed settlement to the long dispute over the 80-year-old Craigie building may no longer be satisfactory to tenants...
Shorn of its local operating subsidiaries, AT&T's gross revenues are expected to drop from a current level of $57 billion to $30 billion. But a 270-page study of the impact of the settlement on the company by International Resource Development Inc., a Connecticut-based consulting firm, projects that inflation-adjusted revenues will double in the coming eight years, with nearly all of the gain coming from new businesses...