In many instances settlements are built on marginal land.
There have also been signs of tension with other U.S. companies — for instance, antitrust settlements with Microsoft, cabbies in London and Madrid protesting against Uber, and scrutiny of Amazon and Apple's tax policies.
Just before Christmas, for instance, Union Settlement, the 117-year-old social service agency based in East Harlem, released the results of a survey that identified crime as the single greatest concern to residents in the area.
It leaves for later, for instance, the settlement of conflicting claims to Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed city that was subjected to a government-encouraged immigration of Arabs during Mr. Hussein's time.
In January, for instance, the settlement of a long-running federal desegregation lawsuit against the city brought an infusion of state money that helped avert layoffs and paid for programs to improve the performance of black and Hispanic children, who make up more than three-quarters of the district's 26,400 students.
And have blacks in such instances of settlements gone from a past of being "money --as actual collateral--to being "collateral" damoney --as
In both instances, a settlement was reached and no strike occurred.
For instance, I.B.M. reached settlements with the S.E.C. in 2000 and again in 2011 over violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Oxfam, for instance, acknowledges that settlements do employ a number of Palestinians, but say they still lack access to the social benefits and higher wages that employees within Israel have.
This is because filtering might mislead by generalizing the classification to the extent that some mapping units for instance cultivated area, settlements, and bareland covers could be underestimated.
