Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Luanda last week Sergeant Vivian Hernandez Cabellero, a 19-year-old member of an antiaircraft battery, said goodbye to her companeros. She was part of the first contingent of Cuban soldiers to be withdrawn from Angola as part of a negotiated settlement to 13 years of fighting. In Kabul 500 Soviet soldiers, laden with equipment, lined up before military transport planes to fly home. Meanwhile, the Kremlin's Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, and his deputy, Yuli Vorontsov, met separately with the Afghan regime and the leaders of the mujahedin to discuss what amounted to the terms of the U.S.S.R...
Without admitting guilt, Harris said it would pay $14 million in back wages to thousands of workers. Nancy Kreiter, research director for a women's advocacy group that helped push the lawsuit, called the settlement "a fabulously sweet victory." But even before last week's decision, the bank had come a long way. In 1977 Harris had five women vice presidents. Today...
...store chain in New York City. After a month as a model employee, she was fired because a polygraph test indicated that she might be a drug dealer and might have served a prison sentence. Neither was true. Holleman sued Alexander's, and they reached an out-of-court settlement...
University of Georgia instructor Jan Kemp was dismissed from the faculty after complaining about the coddling treatment given to partial qualifiers in the school's remedial studies program. She sued the university and received $ 1.8 million in a negotiated settlement...
...East, where the vocabulary of straight talk is almost always made up of fighting words. Arafat may still be talking out of both sides of his mouth, but there is an important change in the ratio: there are fewer euphemisms for terrorism and more code words for a negotiated settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict...