Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winning the war. Owing in part to the failure of the January offensive, and to the Reagan Administration's determination to help the junta, the leftists' support abroad is ebbing. Even the sympathetic Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua has urged the guerrillas to work out "a negotiated settlement" with the junta...
...cashed in one branch of a bank to "clear" or be debited against the funds on deposit in another branch. No actual cash is shuffled between branches in the balancing process. Instead, accounts are made to tally by a method of computerized ledger balancing known as a "branch settlement account," a technique used by banks everywhere...
...heart of the settlement process is a funds transfer form that looks like an airline ticket and consists of a top page titled "credit," a carbon page and a bottom page titled "debit." According to Cooley, Lewis defeated the bank's fraud defenses by using the tickets to hoodwink Wells Fargo's computers...
...seemed. Within hours of the Lodz settlement, sympathy strikes ended at the University of Warsaw and 19 other campuses. In the southeastern city of Rzeszów, meanwhile, a seven-week farmers' sit-in ended after government negotiators signed agreements with peasant leaders there and in nearby Ustrzyki Dolne. Just seven days after the new Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski had issued his dramatic appeal for "90 days of calm," peace, it seemed, had broken out on all labor fronts...
...return: 1) a pledge that their union charter would declare allegiance to the Polish constitution, which enshrines the party's leading role, and 2) a requirement that only those strikes approved by a majority of the student body would be considered legitimate. Referring to the whole student settlement package, one Western diplomat shook his head and said, "I just don't see how the Soviets can accept that...