Evaluative mediation is virtually identical to settlement conferences presided over by judges.
He said: "What we want is for our cities to remain distinctive and different, compete by all means but let's not have a kind of clone city where things are more or less identical between one settlement and the next".
The Essenes, regardless of whether they were identical with the Qumrān settlement, probably had a written rule.
The structure of the deal is nearly identical to the $8.5 billion settlement announced last week with Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, MetLife Bank, PNC Financial Services, Sovereign, SunTrust, U.S. Bank and Aurora.
The current settlement is substantively identical to one tentatively reached in 2000 under the Clinton administration.
The patterning of these remains is broadly comparable, though not identical, to that of three other settlement zones on Olosega and the adjacent island of Ofu, which previously were intensively surveyed.
The settlement, thought to be identical with both Vineta and Jomsborg, was pagan, multiethnic, and readily kept accepting newcomers, especially craftsmen and other professionals, from all over the world.
The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, who filed suit against Facebook in 2004 and emerged with a rumoured $65m settlement, are played by non-identical actors Armie Hammer and Josh Pence.
During King Stewart's invasion of the settlement the music and lyrics are identical to that of Mel Brooks Blazing Saddless, with Rock Ridge changed to Quahog.
(The Times accompanied an article on their similarities with side-by-side photos of Holder announcing three different settlements and looking more or less identical — same expression, same outfit, same mustache and close-cropped hair).
