S.I.L. first made contact with the Pirahã nearly fifty years ago, when a missionary couple, Arlo and Vi Heinrichs, joined a settlement on the Marmelos.
In "The Counterlife," Philip Roth's novel of clashing and alternate identities, Nathan Zuckerman leaves his home in London to track down his brother, a New Jersey dentist who has forsaken both his family and Wendy, his highly compliant office assistant, and joined a settlement near Hebron.
Baruch, a software engineer, was practical about joining a settlement: It was cheaper and easier to find the right kind of suburbia rural-ish but not rural"—and, importantly, Allisuburbia rural-ish
Microsoft maintained that the law did not apply to the proceedings between the company and the nine states that refused to join a proposed settlement with the Justice Department.
A1 States Hold Off on Microsoft The 18 states that joined the Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft rebuffed requests to join a tentative settlement, and will ask the judge for time to study the details.
In an article on June 9, sources told Reuters the U.S. and Switzerland were in advanced talks on a multibillion dollar deal that would let several Swiss and European banks join a common settlement to avoid potential U.S. prosecution.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Bill Gates will take the stand Monday in the hearing on remedies being prosecuted by nine states who refused to join an earlier settlement of antitrust charges agreed to by Microsoft and the U.S. federal government.
By naming New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to the squad, Obama put enormous pressure on the outspoken Wall Street critic to join a foreclosure fraud settlement that Schneiderman has frequently rejected as overly acquiescent to the financial establishment.
Bank of America's Countrywide mortgage unit have been hit with at least three new lawsuits accusing it of misleading investors about its finances and lending practices, and may face more by other investors who chose not to join a recent class-action settlement.
