If Merck decides that it will settle the outstanding cases, estimates of the sums it may have to pay run to tens of billions of dollars.
It also re-stated on Tuesday its hope that it can settle civil and criminal claims over the Gulf of Mexico oil platform disaster.
Anton Balasingham, its chief negotiator in Thailand, said more plainly than any top LTTE official has, so far, that it would settle for something short of independence.
Last month the bank agreed to pay shareholders to settle charges that it misled them on the financial health of Merrill when it was purchased in 2009.
Sources in media reports say Qwest (nyse: Q - news - people ) would neither admit nor deny committing fraud to settle claims that it swapped fiber optic capacity with other carriers and improperly booked the transactions to inflate revenues.
"In addition, while their funding is not guaranteed, the new investors have indicated that providing the business develops as planned, they will continue to support the club in the foreseeable future and provide additional finance in order that it can settle its liabilities, " said the report.
The good news for BofA is that it seems to be putting a significant chunk of its Countrywide problems behind it now that its agreed to settle with these investors.
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Against this backdrop, it's perhaps unsurprising that many companies settle for scattershot investments in training and IT systems.
But he kept reassuring me that the case would settle before it got to court.
The MDC, which had been resisting mounting pressure to settle and said that it would rather have no deal than a bad one, seems confident that it holds enough cards in its hands to make this work.
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Or cynically settle for that mediocrity when it turns out that their franchise organization doesn't have it handled after all (at least not as well as the owner was led to believe when they sold her the franchise), and doesn't hand it to them on a plate.
And as I followed her, in this way, past the flower gardens, I realized that her movements were similar to mine, that she, too, was trying to protect something fragile, something that might fall and shatter into pieces, and that needed thus to be led toward a place where it could settle gently, something that she could not touch but could only guide with her gestures: the moon.
The New York Times reports that Fannie and Freddie are getting ready to settle with the SEC over the allegations that it lied about the extent of its subprime exposure.
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But Lloyds replied that it every incentive to settle legitimate complaints, because banks have to pay for each case that goes to the ombudsman.
But he said Barclays could perhaps be seen as having paid a price for having co-operated with the probe - in that it is the first to pay a whopping fine and settle, so it has attracted all the (terrible) publicity.
And that phenomenon, Rawashdeh noted, is yet another sign that Twitter fully realizes it needs to settle for nothing short of industrial-strength infrastructure.
The researchers estimate that it would take about 15 years for the dust to eventually settle down to Earth, and it would take a substantial chuck of space junk with it.
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It is not just that the government is making it harder for foreigners already in Britain to settle, which is likely to mean more of them will leave soon.
It would prefer that the plaintiffs settle their grievances in domestic courts.
As she shook this one box which was not empty, so that the contents would settle and not spill when it was lifted, she noticed some loose sheets of writing paper lying face down.
Does it mean that Apple and Samsung will settle the rest of their disputes out of court?
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The White House speculated that it was because the Republicans needed to settle differences among themselves on their plan.
It seems that Microsoft has decided to settle on a single look.
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Mr Crone said "it was the reason that we had to settle" a case.
It remains possible that the two sides will settle out of court before the trial begins.
He did so to settle an investigation that might have exposed his fraud if it had been adequately conducted.
But it also notes in a recent regulatory filing that it may have to take further provisions to settle private suits.
Immigration reform that does not make it harder for such people to settle in the U.S. would be, to say the least, very incomplete.
In the longer run, however, it may be that the only way to settle the problem of Kosovo would be to hold a new Balkan conference, where the entire gamut of territorial and constitutional issues across the region could be discussed in the round.
It seems very likely that they will have to settle for a cold meal after all.
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