Last Monday, John Mara, his nom de negotiations finally shed, stood on a Washington sidewalk, relieved that the N.F.L. was announcing it had signed a 10-year labor settlement with players that would put the league back to work.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering a settlement with Google that would barely touch the company's core search business.
Still, a few informed & influential Arabs think there may right now be a real possibility for a settlement with Israel that will endure longer than the others.
ChevronTexaco put its stakes into the trust in October as part of a settlement with regulators that allowed Chevron to buy Texaco.
REUTERS Donovan Says Mortgage Settlement Is Near | Shaun Donovan, the secretary of housing and urban development, said officials are "very close" to a settlement with banks that could allow about one million homeowners to reduce their mortgage debt, Reuters reports.
NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE A10 Insurer May Announce $1.6 Billion Settlement A.I.G., the insurance giant, is expected to announce a settlement with regulators that will require it to pay $1.6 billion, closing a chapter in its recent troubled history.
Another option, which publishers and authors said Wednesday was attractive to them, would be to reach a new settlement with Google that requires each author or copyright owner to opt in and permit Google to digitize their works.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan is exploiting the troubled United States military effort in Afghanistan to drive home a political settlement with Afghanistan that would give Pakistan important influence there but is likely to undermine United States interests, Pakistani and American officials said.
Moderate factions within the PLO, however, have proved willing to accept a negotiated settlement with Israel that would yield a Palestinian state, which at times has led to internecine violence.
