"But if you accept a settlement of that magnitude, you have to have a lot of confidence it will go a long way toward improving education".
Post deforestation land-use transitions were principally to wetland, grassland and settlement although the magnitude and proportion of change varied regionally.
"The settlement reflects the magnitude of the wrongdoing and how critical it is that these be honest and reliable," said Gary S. Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the American regulator that opened the UBS investigation.
"Even if all the allegations were to be believed," Mr. Opinsky said, "a settlement of this magnitude is merely a political trophy for the attorney general and totally disproportionate to the impact of the alleged misconduct". Chris Winans, a spokesman for A.I.G., declined to comment on a possible settlement.
Justice Department officials nevertheless hoped the settlement's sheer magnitude would portray an emboldened federal government that will use big fines to deter Wall Street wrongdoing.
Predictions of bearing capacity varied by more than an order of magnitude and settlement by more than two orders of magnitude.
(1) A minimum period of 6 months was used to minimize the possible effects of potentially insufficient conditioning of the deployed substrata on the magnitudes of settlement and recruitment.
After earthquake loadings, underground structures might settle due to the consolidation of soils and cutoff walls could also reduce the magnitude of settlement.
The only latter-day settlement experiment of notable magnitude to achieve enduring success was a series of Mormon settlements in the Great Basin region of Utah and adjacent states, with their tightly concentrated farm villages reminiscent of the New England model.
Vertical loading magnitude, vertical settlement and slab deformations were measured.
