As reasonable as that is to many state officials, some attorneys general who were involved in the settlement negotiations insist that states have always wrangled with priorities and that the point of the settlement was to solve a specific problem.
The airport lease settlement seemed to solve all those issues while freeing Mr. McGreevey from having to go back to the Legislature for money to pay for the arena.
"In those other cases, monitors are put in place as part of settlement agreements to solve a problem, where here there is great resistance to the notion there is actually a problem," said Steven Banks, the attorney in chief for the Legal Aid Society in New York, which is also suing the Police Department over the stop-and-frisk tactics in a separate case.
In any event, we at the WTO have a very effective dispute settlement system to solve differences in a peaceful manner.
Because, if nothing else, the settlement has failed to solve its own problems; it had been forced to call for outside help".
Are the settlement measures going to solve the situation on the grassland in the west of China, or is the hasty implementation going to bring further social problems for Tibetan nomads, that the Central Government will have to solve?
Some rivals are already calling on Mr. Almunia to abandon the settlement efforts, calling them insufficient to solve their competition concerns and even unfair in some areas.
As it happens, my own minor travails in the course of writing a textbook seem to illustrate in a small way why this problem is so hard to solve, and why the settlement, if the states go along with it, might nonetheless do some good.
Because there is no judge for judicial settlement between nations, war as a means to solve conflicts must be tolerated.
"Negotiated political settlement is the most civilised and practical way to solve the Moro problem," Murad said in his speech.
