Word: settlements
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...Settlement for Mass. Pricing Lawsuit, Staples Gives $7.50 Vouchers to Customers...
Most students were not aware that “Customer Day” at Staples on Sept. 25, was nothing more than a settlement for a lawsuit that accused the office-supply chain of violating Massachusetts state item pricing regulations...
...career was tainted when he and various acquaintances, as well as Harvard, were sued under the False Claims Act for buying Russian stocks and short-term state bonds in violation of Harvard’s contract with the United States Agency for International Development. In 2005, a settlement was reached between the government and the defendant parties, with Harvard and Shleifer paying millions of dollars in damages. And up until last week, Harvard had allowed Shleifer to maintain his endowed title with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Last Wednesday, FAS said it had concluded its ethics inquiry...
Shleifer, who paid a $2 million settlement but admitted no wrongdoing after the Justice Department sued him for allegedly defrauding the U.S. government, recently lost his title as the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Economics, apparently as part of the administration’s punishment. The change first appeared in Harvard’s online directories last Friday...
...danger for Israel--and the world--is that the longer the siege of Gaza lasts, the more likely it is to strengthen radicals who have little interest in a peaceful settlement of the dispute with Israel. Despite the blockade of Gaza, many Palestinians still have a few good memories of Israelis. Feheme, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy with blood cancer, was twice treated in Jerusalem and still gets follow-up calls from his doctor. A farmer whose orange groves were shelled 12 times by Israelis after militants set off a rocket in a nearby field still talks fondly...