"Merck is not going to pay a dime in settlements for years, " says Krensavage.
Recent peace talks with the Palestinians were derailed over the issue of continued building in settlements.
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For them, even a few million in settlements or licensing fees could mean life-or-death.
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"First of all, 90 percent of the building in settlements is going on in the blocs, " he said.
But Mr Abbas reiterated his demand that all construction in settlements be frozen.
Providian was hit by class-action lawsuits and regulatory investigations for price-gouging, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements.
On the one hand, judges are disinclined to second-guess federal agencies and interfere in settlements negotiated by two sophisticated parties.
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But Mr Netanyahu's office has denied the hiatus amounted to an official freeze and continued to insist on "natural growth" construction in settlements.
An important one was protection from disease, suspected to be a consequence of the increased risk of infection that living in settlements brings.
In settlements with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in Britain and America's Department of Justice, Barclays accepted that its traders had manipulated rates on hundreds of occasions.
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In the case of energy giant Enron, which went bust in 2001, shareholders managed to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements by filing class action suits.
All the asbestos cases were filed in plaintiff-friendly Mississippi, where lawyers wrested hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements from defendants including Halliburton, Ingersoll-Rand, Owens Corning and Georgia Pacific .
To be successful, it needs to be able to draw on an existing sense of community (rare in settlements of recently arrived migrants from the countryside), and on forceful and charismatic local leaders.
Lawyers have seized upon the fuzzy definitions to win millions of dollars in settlements and fees by forming suits on behalf of white-collar employees most would traditionally consider exempt from overtime, such as stockbrokers and store managers.
While still a small portion of trade settlements, it has had some success, the use of the Chinese yuan in global settlements tripling in the third quarter of this year.
The same was true in some of the early Pilgrim settlements in North America.
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In most settlements, the defendants will claim innocence, or at least refuse to admit culpability.
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In the Army, in the settlements, whether you like it or not, there is idealism.
Innovative pharmaceutical companies have much more at stake than generic companies do in these settlements.
Most are from Iraq and Afghanistan, and are now living in insanitary settlements close to the port.
This fits in with survey evidence showing a rise in pay settlements, argues Danny Gabay, an economist at J.
Today conditions in Roma settlements on the edges of town and villages rival Africa or India for their deprivation.
It is still building hundreds of dwellings a year in other settlements too.
And part of that, at least in Asia, is due to the growth of the Chinese yuan in trade settlements.
This activity taught the learners the hardships faced daily by people in informal settlements as well as how they cope.
Some lived in illegal settlements and did not want to leave when warnings came, believing these a tactic to evict them.
Using information from similar programs in India, a savings and loan program was set up and is run by women in the settlements.
Mr Netanyahu consistently rejected any freeze in East Jerusalem, which Israel unilaterally annexed in 1967, but agreed to reduce building elsewhere in the settlements.
Sure we all wanted these folks to go to jail but there did seem to be some justice in these settlements, or at least a passive acceptance.
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Most people stay in informal settlements and are unemployed, which makes it difficult for parents to pay school fees and to help their children with school matters.
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