The move is not part of the latest stimulus plan, but a fittingly tasteful settlement to a particularly European dispute.
In Minnesota, Ms. Westin's family members said they would donate the settlement to a residential treatment center for eating disorders.
Andrew J. Spano, the Westchester County executive, attributed the settlement to "a historic shift of philosophy" by federal housing officials.
The Chicago City Council on Wednesday approved a $16.5 million settlement to a federal class-action civil rights lawsuit that accused the Chicago Police Department of abuse.
On Monday, the companies announced a settlement to a dispute that centered on Oracle's hiring of Mark V. Hurd, the former chief executive of H.P., as a president.
Last week's announcement that the government is to make an out-of-court settlement to a group of former Guantánamo detainees came with a little-noticed detail.
As settlement to a lawsuit stemming from her early departure, Fawcett agreed to appear three more times as a guest star in each of seasons three and four.
Archbishop Weakland retired in May after acknowledging a confidential $450,000 settlement to a former student who said the archbishop had sexually assaulted him.
He has been seen as everything from the poet champion of accepted social hierarchy and the Elizabethan political settlement to a closet radical and secret Catholic.
The supermarket, along with a Duane Reade drugstore, is expected to open early next year, signs that Queens West could be maturing from a settlement to a community.
The Times has published an article exploring the dissatisfaction brewing among some retailer advocates with a recently proposed settlement to a lawsuit that pitted merchants against Visa, MasterCard and the leading banks.
