The commission has increasingly favored settling major investigations to win quicker results, and it could waive fines if the banks agreed to adjust their contracts with Markit and ICE Europe.
As chairwoman and chief executive of Lucent Technologies, she has returned the telecommunications giant to modest profitability by eliminating tens of thousands of jobs, slashing billions of dollars in debt and settling major lawsuits with investors.
The conflict was on a small scale the outcome determined by a single night's fighting yet it was highly significant in that it demonstrated the inability of the courtiers to settle major differences without reliance on the power of the warriors.
B4 Progress in Apartment Talks Negotiators for the real estate industry and the union representing workers at 2,900 New York City apartment buildings said that they made modest progress in talks last week, but still need to settle major differences to avoid a strike this Friday.
The major powers recently settled another major sticking point - the so-called "snapback" of U.N. sanctions in the event of Iranian non-compliance with the deal.
Monsanto and DuPont, which have bitterly battled for dominance in the seed business, have settled their major disputes with a broad patent-licensing deal.
At their first joint session in Zurich, they issued a communiqué announcing that by Wednesday they hope to have settled the "major principles" of a Laotian peace.
Some have produced legislative compromise (in 1980, lawmakers established the Superfund and settled a major Alaskan land dispute) and some have been a bust (in 2008, lawmakers slunk home, having approved only a modest extension of jobless benefits).
There have already been signs of this: just last week, Dow Chemical settled a major class-action suit, saying that Scalia's death increased the chances of "unfavorable outcomes for business".
