So I asked Joseph A. Smith Jr., a former banking regulator in North Carolina who is monitoring the settlement, how he planned to vet the banks' claims of relief provided and credit earned.
And he asked profoundly difficult questions to people still attached to the idea of jobs-for-life and the postwar settlement: "How real is a policy of full employment when the speed of technical change destroys jobs as rapidly as growth creates them?" This was one of the best texts the magazine ever published.
If the deal itself is not a bad or fraudulent one, according to the SEC's own (admittedly dim) terms of settlement, how can the SEC then turn around and argue that Tourre, in putting it together, committed any kind of fraud?
Given the time constraints of the settlement, how could you screen, digest and evaluate claims?" But even a lawyer on the claimant side admits to some concern.
Selling Assets for Settlements Just how the different dioceses will get the money to pay for current and future settlements remains unclear, partly because it is hard to know what assets the dioceses have in the first place.
The photo op, celebrating a technological wonder built with the help of American dollars, came with considerable symbolism as Mr. Obama sought to showcase support for Israel after years of tensions over Jewish settlements and how to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Decisions by downriver settlements about how many fish to harvest and when to open weirs would have had a significant impact on the nature and timing of the resource for upriver peoples (c.f., Swezey and Heizer 1977).
McNay is one of the world's best known experts on structured settlements and how lottery winners handle their money.
There may be variations between settlements in how utilization numbers and population numbers are collected and reported to UNHCR, making it difficult to ensure the validity of comparisons between settlements and countries.
