If the S.E.C. were to just pursue cases against individuals, Mr. Pitt said, "they will be getting far less settlements, which means they will have to litigate more cases, which means they will bring less cases".
The spatial counts of leopards were noticeably high in areas with high prey richness and areas far from settlements and roads.
President Obama signed legislation in December 2010 authorizing payment for a similar, though far larger, settlement for Indians.
After her statement, several software rivals objected to Microsoft's offer, causing more negotiation and, so far, no settlement.
Much of what passed at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, including the Far East settlement, concerned only Roosevelt and Stalin, and Churchill did not interfere.
Life among thousands of deserted buildings would be bleak, and a city shorn of much of its tax base would be hard-pressed to provide services to sparsely inhabited, far-flung settlements.
By choosing him now to help run the investigation, the president appears to be embracing the call for a much broader inquiry that, properly executed, could result in a far bigger settlement.
Meanwhile, more than 10,000 workers — not all of them sued the Port Authority — face a decision on whether to accept the far larger settlement with the city and its contractors by a Nov. 8 deadline.
Israel continues to hold on to far-flung settlements plunked in the middle of Gaza, where they consume the best land and water, surrounded by one million destitute Palestinians crowded into tiny spaces.
