• Each agreement is negotiated separately, but the firm generally gets the first several million of a settlement plus a percentage of any amount over that.

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  • Each pupil ends up with a score of plus or minus a number of points.

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  • His pay package includes salary and a cash bonus linked to performance, plus a big cut of the options plus more traditional perks like a car and membership in a country club.

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  • Habeas corpus relief depends upon a combination of newly-discovered evidence plus a demonstration of innocence.

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  • It all adds up to a sport that combines strenuous physical demands with the mental challenges of running a Silicon Valley venture, plus a generous dollop of good old-fashioned sleep deprivation.

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  • For instance, a customer might get an e-mail reminding him that it is his mother-in-law's birthday next week, along with a suggestion for a present, plus a note of what he sent last year.

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  • When a credit card users make a purchase using his or her card, the merchant is charged a transaction fee by its bank that typically includes a fixed charge plus a percentage of the amount charged.

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  • If you want to live in the scenery (not just admire it), consider combining Oahu, the Big Island and Kauai, all of which together offer the hiking and backcountry adventures of a lifetime plus plenty of traditional and contemporary Hawaiian culture, not to mention tasty treats for your tummy.

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  • This is just what happened to Robin Cook in 1998, when marital problems, plus a couple of mishandled foreign trips, plus Britain's bungled intervention in Sierra Leone, conspired to make one of Labour's smoothest operators look like a liability.

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  • American officials said they were seeking to form a temporary government for Haiti, bringing together supporters and opponents of Mr Aristide, plus a representative of Caricom, until elections could be held.

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  • The judge sided with Ehrlich and ordered the other musicians to pay his legal fees, a quarter of the quartet's assets at the time of his firing, plus a quarter of the quartet's value as a corporation.

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  • Click on the Market Blaster video below for a look at why Caterpillar still appears to be a cheap stock, plus a rundown of a half-dozen stocks making interesting runs lower or higher around earnings releases.

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  • Forbes has developed a new online platform for displaying the ongoing work of our Asian and other correspondents, plus a number of outside contributors: our blog network.

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  • The Greeks would get back the town of Morphou, and the eastern coastal resort of Varosha, plus a number of ex-Greek villages.

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  • While the exact settlement terms were not disclosed, Nokia said that it would receive a one-time payment plus a lifetime of royalties from various Apple products.

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  • Think of The Wire plus a bit of CSI, but if the criminals were increasingly weird and added an The X-Files element to everything.

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  • The online haters have formidable allies amplifying their tirades to a potential worldwide audience of 900 million: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, plus a raft of other blog hosts.

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  • Currensee get a cut of that, plus a few basis points on the spread of every trade.

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  • With luck, after worriedly tacking to and fro between these sorts of boundary poles, plus a bunch of others, I arrive at work that works.

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  • The Mexicans contended that farm subsidies north of the border, plus a surplus of "dark meat" chicken pieces resulting from affluent America's preference for breast cuts, threatened them with ruin.

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  • The new coalition is an odd-looking assortment of Christian Democrats and free-market liberals of the Democratic Union, plus a gaggle of Greens (themselves a front of three separate parties), conservatives and social democrats.

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  • The plan is to close poorly performing branches, while expanding a new chain of grocers called Food Plus, at a rate of 12 stores a year.

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  • Mr Bhalla also takes issue with a suggestion that the Reserve Bank adopt an exchange-rate target a band of plus or minus 5% around a currency-weighted rate.

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  • Denver has no shortage of high-end eateries, plus a lot of steakhouses and old school western places (think buffalo and elk) like the famous Buckhorn Exchange.

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  • That is barely 0.5% of the workforce, but between them they produce around 11% of Britain's exports (plus a lot of cars and engines for the domestic market as well).

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  • On top of that there will be (for high-bracket savers) a 3.8% investment tax surcharge plus a clawback of deductions that effectively adds 1.2 percentage points to the stated tax rate.

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  • The franchiser owns a trademark or brand, which he (or she) agrees to allow the franchisee to use for a fee (often an original purchase price plus a percentage of sales).

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  • And the sultan himself was, in theory, a slave as well, because he was the son, most often, of his father, plus a woman out of the harem who was, in theory, a slave.

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  • Its funky little tasting room offers a friendly welcome (and free samples), plus a roster of all-organic brews, ranging from malty Extra Special Bitter to smooth Heatherdale Ale.

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  • He agreed to Republican renewal of the Bush tax cuts of 2001 plus a partial remission of Social Security payroll taxes.

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