This has included pushing for new legislation in Illinois and urging states expecting money from a prior legal settlement to weigh in on its side to protect their winnings.
The bank's recent legal settlements also weighed on its results.
Mr. Emanuel himself was aware of the case and the video at the point at which a city settlement was being weighed, city officials said.
Halliburton, under scrutiny for its billing for work in Iraq, Wednesday posted a quarterly loss, reversing a year-ago profit as charges for a proposed asbestos and silica settlement continued to weigh.
He is calculating that the settlements saved would weigh decisively with Israeli opinion, against those that would be lost.
Those soldiers did not refuse to serve, but they criticized the government for building new settlements while it weighed a peace agreement with Egypt that would force Israel to withdraw from Sinai.
Moreover, in leaks from "back-channel" talks, and in the undiplomatic candour with which Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, on occasion publicly weighs the options, the outlines of a settlement acceptable to both sides are emerging.
It would take some time for the hundreds of objectors to version 1.0 of the Google Book Search GBSsettlemententoto study revisions in GBS agreement 2.0, which now weighs in at 377 pages.
Brian Gilvary, BP's chief financial officer, said in a conference call with analysts that the board weighed the settlement struck with the government against the prospect of a much wider criminal indictment that would have involved more people in the company.
In another case that weighs on voters' minds, Greece has reached a $355 million out-of-court settlement with Siemens, the German electronics and engineering giant, which had been accused of bribing politicians to secure state contracts.
