The temporary solution had been to keep building settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, while hoping that somehow, miraculously, the Palestinians would disappear, or that a huge influx of Jewish citizens would somehow flood the country and tip the balance in a conclusive way.
The idea behind this move seems to be to keep people of Turkish descent in their original settlements in Syria rather than having them all immigrate to Turkey.
Details of the settlement were to be kept secret, but people with knowledge of the case have put it at several million dollars paid over a period of years.
The terms of the settlement are to be kept confidential under court order.
Radaronline reports that the settlement was done to keep embarrassing details about Britney's personal life quiet.
Antitrust regulators on Wednesday raided big European drug makers as part of an investigation into whether patents and lawsuit settlements are being manipulated to keep generic products off the market.
The upshot, of course, is that the people the settlement was designed to protect keep losing their homes.
In a 1994 settlement, she was allowed to keep what remained of the $80,000 withdrawn from his bank accounts but waived rights to the rest of his estate, and she was prohibited from using Vlasto as her family name.
Mr. Miller said the investigation should consider why the settlement was kept secret for five weeks and why the department agreed to give Wal-Mart 15 days' notice before conducting wage-and-hour investigations in many cases.
DealBook » UBS Settlement Minimizes Impact of Guilty Plea | To settle a rate-rigging case, the Japanese securities subsidiary of UBS pleaded guilty to a charge of felony wire fraud as part of a settlement that was structured to keep the potential fallout from the plea to a minimum, Peter J. Henning writes in the White Collar Watch column.
