Four Republican attorneys general wrote a letter last week to Mr. Miller of Iowa, expressing concern with the "scope, regulatory nature and unintended consequences," of the settlement proposals, particularly with the question of principal reductions.
Malcolm Bracken, oil analyst from stockbrokers Redmayne Bentley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the company failed to see the consequences of the settlement when it originally set aside the provisions.
Indeed, Facebook recently expanded Sponsored Stories to its mobile platform, an arena where the misappropriation of personal information has far reaching and potentially dangerous consequences; the proposed settlement does not address this major expansion.
The improved profits owed much to Manville's unusual tax structure As a consequence of the settlement of the asbestos lawsuits, it need pay no federal income taxes for many years to come.
The operational research deals with the determination of an optimal decision as a consequence of the settlement of deterministic and stochastic models made for the study of economic, managerial phenomena.
Biovail did not have to pay any fine, and the company said it would not suffer any "negative financial consequences" as a result of the settlement.
The prime minister, Shukri Ghanim, in an interview, said that any decision by the Bush administration was strictly an "internal matter" for the United States, but that the deadlines and their consequences, made clear in the settlement with the Lockerbie families, were well known to all parties, including senior administration officials.
The majority of Africa's pastoral populations have been settled for more than 40 years, and new studies generating old hypotheses about the consequences of settlement for pastoralists are no longer relevant.
Resistance like hers threatens to undercut Russia's efforts to reverse one of the perverted economic consequences of Soviet central planning: the settlement of cities and industries in some of the most remote and inhospitable places on earth.
One of the sad consequences of the westward settlement of the United States was the near eradication of the grizzly bear.
