Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed in 1985 to bear a child for them for a $1,500 fee but then demanded more money. Munoz, 20, claims the Haros had falsely assured her that after three weeks the embryo would be implanted in Nattie Haro. The child, Lydia Michelle, was born in June. The settlement approved by a judge will permit Munoz to see the child several days a week, and will give her $50 a month in child support. The case signals how common such disputes may become. Munoz and the Haros, who wrote their own brief surrogate contract, used a syringe to accomplish...
...Coors could not agree on the causes of the strike; they could not reach a settlement either. Indeed, the resulting strike has yet to be resolved, although over two-thirds of the striking workers have returned to the brewery. Almost two years after the strike's start, the non-striking workers voted to decertify the AFL-CIO affiliate, Brewery Workers Local 366. The striking workers were unable to vote in the decertification election...
...allegedly guilty trio. All three were handcuffed at some point during the arrest process. Members of the financial community speculated that the dramatic arrests might have been inspired by a previous outcry against kid-gloves handling of Insider Trader Boesky. The highflying arbitrager, who had to pay a settlement of $100 million, was allowed to sell off hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of stock from his firm's trading accounts before his misdeeds were made known. To many Wall Streeters, it almost seemed as if Boesky had profited from inside knowledge of his own downfall, while other, more honest...
...Princeton administration has attempted to remain uninvolved in the controversy. "The university has largely extricated itself from these proceedings by a settlement with Sally Frank last summer," said Thomas H. Wright, general counsel of Princeton...
Unfortunately there can never be a definitive settlement of this matter. No television crew was able to get a clear angle of both the shot and the clock, so no conclusive replays are available. It's just Albert's word against those of the goal judge and of the 14,141 fans in attendance who thought they saw otherwise...