Federal officials said they hoped the number would rise because Congress recently authorized compensation for people injured by the vaccine.
As veteran affairs secretary, Mr. Derwinski authorized compensation for more than 1,600 Vietnam veterans found to have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, possibly as a result of exposure to the pesticide Agent Orange, and he shifted the department's focus to aging veterans and veterans living in the Sunbelt.
In the Evacuation Claims Act of 1948, Congress authorized compensation for specific property losses suffered by the internees.
Benjamin More, a justice of the peace in the District of Columbia, argued that the repeal of statutory provisions authorizing compensation for his office violated the salary-protection guarantees for federal judges in Article Three of the United States Constitution.
Going to Plan B, I.B.M. made some concessions on wages — authorizing generous compensation in FarmVille dollars — but would not yield on collective-bargaining rights.
The minutes also show that the board committee voted to authorize Mr. Belnick's compensation agreement, paying him $10.6 million for his work this year through Oct. 1, 2003, and to pay for the taxes, making the package worth about $20 million.
Ms. Donnelly also suggested that one explanation provided by Mr. Kozlowski and Mr. Swartz -- that the most controversial payments were authorized by the compensation committee's chairman, Philip Hampton, who is dead -- is not true.
It grants an investor the right to use dispute settlement proceedings against a foreign government by using ad hoc extrajudicial tribunals that are authorized to order compensation.
In November 1999 the U.S. Congress passed legislation authorizing payment of compensation to the families of the American Black Hawk victims.
Neither the Supreme Court nor any other federal court has ever ruled that the Sixteenth Amendment (or any other part of the Constitution) does not authorize a Federal income tax on compensation for personal services.
