The players made some gains in the settlement: better pensions, higher minimum salaries, more union oversight of decisions made by the commissioner.
Under the proposed settlement, better nursing and treatment facilities must be phased in, adding, eventually, an estimated $120 million a year to the prison health care budget.
Speaking of traditions, one of our favorite exhibits was the collection of portraits of Indian chiefs who were a part of the original settlement, better known in Canada as the First Nations.
'It' is Longyearbyen, and by extension the whole Svalbard archipelago of which it is the main settlement, better known to some as Spitsbergen (sharp mountains), the name bestowed on it by 16th century Dutch explorer Willem Barents who was impressed by, well, its interminable row of sharp mountains.
In a New Year's 2016 message, EZLN spokesman Subcomandante Moisés said Zapatistas settlements were "better than 22 years ago", but also better than those in non-autonomous communities, which have been supported by government programs.
Cultural borrowing is about creative ideas that are driven forward by key people to help transform urban settlements into better places.
A well-funded, well-insured public-private partnership on a grand scale could fortify the world's settlements with better building codes and the like, apply efficient technologies to reduce the need for carbon-emitting energy supplies, and jump-start an overdue clean-energy transition.
But these primitive barracks are a far cry from the neat, solid rows of individual houses already constructed for the small number of displaced Buddhists, who have been living in settlements far better made and situated than those housing the Rohingyas.
In comparison, clusters with fewer home births had higher socio-economic scores and were more permanent settlements with better living conditions.
The modifications announced today simply make this effective settlement even better".
