The genius of our institutions, the needs of our people in their home life, and the attention which is demanded for the settlement and development of the resources of our vast territory dictate the scrupulous avoidance of any departure from that foreign policy commended by the history, the traditions, and the prosperity of our Republic.
That would be an appropriate response if "paying" meant compensating Israel to do precisely what Palestinians and other critics have demanded for many years: dismantle the settlements.
1987 - Forest, 26%; agriculture, 69%; urban, 3% 2003 - Forest, 28%; agriculture, 55%; urban, 12% 2016 - Forest, 35%; agriculture, 55%; urban, 7% - Increasing human population estimated 695 persons per square kilometer in Rwanda, give pressure on land demand for settlement and agriculture.
The area has experienced extensive deforestation and swamp reclamation in recent years as a result of rapid human population growth and the demand for settlement and agricultural land; therefore, only patches of forest remain.
Fueled by alarmist news programs like 60 Minutes, hundreds of lawsuits were filed against Audi and demands for settlements reached $5 billion by 1989.
Last Thursday, Gazprom, the world's largest natural gas producer and a monopoly half-owned by the Russian government, demanded a settlement for what it said was $1.5 billion in debt and threatened to halt 25percentt of Ukraine's natural gas supply at 6 p.m. on Tuesday.
As European cross-border share trading grows, so will demand for a single clearing and settlement agency, rather along the lines of America's Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation.
April 2005: Spitzer demands $50 million settlement for claims and files lawsuit.
As one Palestinian-American writer put it, dropping the demand for a settlement freeze as a precondition to peace talks "means that the next few years will be a settlement construction bonanza".
A16 BUSINESS DAY C1-12 FiRejectsctStatete's Demand Credit Suisse First Boston, facing a civil charge in Massachusetts over its stock research, rejected the state's demand for a settlement, saying that regulators were threatening to undermine the efforts of the Securities and Exchange Commission to come up with a broader settlement that would cover all of the big Wall Street firms.
Last month, all 55 members of Congress from California, Democrats and Republicans, wrote to Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and Attorney General John Ashcroft demanding that the settlement be paid for with Justice Department money.
