Wells Fargo's revised policy takes back unpaid compensation awards in the event of misconduct, material error, failure to supervise or in the event the company or an individual executive's business group has a material downturn in financial performance or failure of risk management.

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In a ruling issued today, a federal court in Karlsruhe has determined interruption of internet service to be grounds for compensation, as it can be categorized as an "essential material item, " Reuters reports.

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Its earlier plutonium production is thought to have produced enough fissile material for at least a couple of bombs, before it was frozen under a 1994 deal that involved compensation in the form of oil deliveries, chiefly from America, and the provision of two western-designed nuclear-power reactors, chiefly by South Korea and Japan.

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