"Like many other employers, the BBC sometimes uses such agreements to settle disputes," the BBC said.
Excluding charges for a tentative agreement to settle litigation in California, store closing and relocation costs, executive severance costs and professional fees, the company said it had a loss of 26 cents a share for the quarter.
Last month, for instance, Medco reached a $42.5 million agreement to settle claims by big employers that Medco, and Merck-Medco before it, switched plan participants to Merck drugs that were more expensive and did not pass along savings from rebates to their client benefits plans.
Two weeks later, Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker and a Manhattan Democrat, signed off on an agreement to settle the allegations for $135,000, mostly paid out of a portion of the Assembly's budget that is not publicly accounted for.
The TAS can also approve Offer in Compromise plans, an agreement to settle the debt for less than the full amount.
The sheriff faces a Jan . 4deadline for saying whether he wants to work out an agreement to settle allegations, and the Justice Department has said it's prepared to sue Arpaio if no agreement can be worked out.
Previous agreements aside, to settle for that would be a slap in the faces of former islanders who are dying off as they continue their campaign for their beloved islands from the Japanese mainland.
The agreement made to settle the dispute with Texas was supposed to stop such brinkmanship.
