Additional collateral damage from the settlement comes from the loss of jobs for most of the consultants hired to do the foreclosure reviews.

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The judge noted that an additional condition imposed on the settlement was that no money flow to shareholders who got BoA stock by tendering their own Merrill shares.

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"The government would have to back off these high-powered remedies and Microsoft would have to make additional concessions" to make a settlement possible, he said.

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If Bush appoints a Presidential Emergency Board, the December 21 deadline for strike or settlement would be extended an additional 60 days -- until mid-February.

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When you add the Brazil situation to the recently announce Ethiopia settlement that now has Starbucks paying additional royalties for coffee from that country, Starbucks is now facing an onslaught of input price increases with not much wiggle room on the revenue side.

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Greene's only condition in the settlement was that he get an additional 90 days to review all of LB Property's records pertaining to accounts connected to Greene's business interests to check for fraud or misappropriation of funds for which he could make a material fraud claim in arbitration, court documents say.

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Obviously, a ban on selling smartphones would be a huge blow to RIM, but it would be safe to assume the company will work out a settlement to the dispute that would provide additional royalty revenue to Nokia.

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Included among the covenants of the credit agreement was a requirement that Knight maintain certain levels of capital for its broker-dealer subsidiaries, which the company might be unable to meet, following the three-day settlement of its erroneous trades, without securing additional capital from outside.

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Under the settlement agreement, the library will not acquire any additional e-readers for patron use that exclude persons who are blind or others with disabilities who need accessible features such as text-to-speech functions or the ability to access menus through audio or tactile options.

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