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...says. "I wanted to help people who were, let's say, needy." Yolanda denies misleading anyone. "I told him, 'I am an open book.'" She says that while staying at King's house, she got a letter from her lawyer telling her she may be getting a $13,000 settlement for a lawsuit involving her mother, who had been injured on a bus years earlier. She says King learned that by opening her mail, which he denies. In any case, she says, she had pledged to help pay the bills and had given King...
...proposed settlement, which Harvard’s janitors will vote on tomorrow, also institutes a system providing higher wages to janitors working later hours or multiple consecutive days and increases vacation time, sick days and disability benefits...
...believed he was owed money. After the rescue, they convinced the victim to make peace with his abductor by paying him $50,000. A real estate developer in Shanghai hired Ding when locals protesting outside his office became a nuisance. "We went with six people and negotiated a settlement without a fight," says Ding. "People know us by reputation. It's like when a country has nuclear weapons. It doesn't have to deploy them to get results...
...surprised some Republicans by introducing ARKids First, and a year later he decided that all the state's proceeds from the tobacco industry lawsuit settlement should go to health education, antismoking campaigns and--get this--Medicaid expansion. Partly because of opposition from his own party, Huckabee's tobacco plan got bottled up in the Arkansas house. So he put it before voters, and the referendum passed, 64% to 36%, in 2000. Huckabee also helped persuade voters to increase their own gas taxes to fund long-overdue highway repairs in 1999. The previous Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton's Democratic successor...
...Amount the settlement--sparked by 85 violations--made Wal-Mart pay, without an admission of wrongdoing...