For all the bluster as Anadarko Petroleum balks at BP's demands it contribute to cleanup costs in the Gulf of Mexico, the most likely result is some form of settlement.

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Thus perhaps best for Apple to reach an agreement with Proview and make some form of cash settlement.

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More banks are facing potential charges in the Libor scandal and are pushing for some form of global settlement with regulators and authorities.

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Since they face the same lawyers over and over, both sides have worked out a simple bargain: In exchange for fees, the plaintiff lawyers sell absolution in the form of a blanket settlement of their claims.

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F. and now the head of a yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, helped Bennett form the Jewish Home Party.

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That can be an unpleasant surprise, so consider making the lack of a Form 1099 explicit in the settlement agreement in appropriate cases.

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This settlement, where fruit gathering is the only form of production permitted, is part of a program of agrarian reform designated for poor families who depend on the land for survival.

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Trade settlement failures can be an indication that a manipulative form of short-selling--called naked short-selling--is going on with the stock.

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