Word: settlements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...right: his money, my money, and your money) on a legal strategy that appeared to be designed to run up Carpenter's bills long enough to force him to drop the case. They made him fly back from his new home in Washington, D.C., to New Mexico for settlement talks that Carpenter says wouldn't even have paid his lawyers' fees. They buried him and his lawyers in discovery documents. But Carpenter, who since had his security clearance restored and is a contractor with another federal agency, never wavered. In that quintessentially American way, he still wanted...
...Your important story about the illegal settlement outpost of Migron, in the West Bank, erroneously referred to Peace Now as a "pacifist group." The organization was established in 1978 by 348 senior Israeli officers and combat soldiers to urge their government to sign a peace treaty with Egypt. Peace Now has supported some Israeli military measures, including Israel's military response to Hizballah gunmen who crossed from Lebanon into Israel to kidnap two soldiers in the summer of 2006. Our objection to the construction and expansion of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories does not stem from a pacifist philosophy...
Your important story about the illegal settlement outpost of Migron, in the West Bank, erroneously referred to Peace Now as a "pacifist group." The organization was established by Israeli soldiers and has supported some Israeli military measures, including Israel's military response to Hizballah gunmen who crossed from Lebanon into Israel to kidnap two soldiers in the summer of 2006. Our objection to the construction and expansion of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories does not stem from a pacifist philosophy but from a pragmatic conviction: such settlements undermine Israel's security and the efforts to achieve a two-state...
...also blamed unfairly. Those suits typically accuse a company of securities fraud soon after its stock price plummets, and a 1995 federal law made them harder to pursue. After peaking in 1998, the number of such suits declined through last year. Bloomberg and Schumer have helpfully pointed out that settlements in shareholder suits have "skyrocketed" from $150 million in 1980 to $9.6 billion in 2005, which sounds impressive, except that most of the $9.6 billion came from the WorldCom settlement of $6.1 billion and nine other settlements of $100 million or more each...
...Neighborhood,” a photograph of the Francis E. Clark Settlement in Chicago, again unattributed and dated to circa 1903, is one of the most detail-rich prints in the show. An alleyway separates two apartment buildings...