They used marine sediments dating back 125,000 years, archaeological records from coastal settlements occupied in the last 10,000 years, records from the European colonial expansion in the Americas and South Pacific starting in the 15th century, and ecological studies from the past century.
Netanyahu's appearance was seen as a risky strategy by both associating him so closely with the pro-settlement movement in the last days of the campaign ahead of the vote on Tuesday and because it risks bolstering support for Bennett among rightwing voters.
Whereas ORI has closed 36 cases through settlement agreements in the last 3 years, OGC has only issued three charge letters in that same period of time [out of 11 cases transmitted by ORI since 2009].
Meanwhile, there was no discussion in the course of either investigation about Dr. Finkelstein's unusually high number of malpractice suits — 10 settlements in the last 10 years, according to public records — which put him in what insurers call a "high risk" category, Dr. Daines said.
Accused of such schemes as illegally marketing drugs for off-label uses, reselling drugs returned in the mail, and improperly switching patients to drug capsules that cost as much as 17 times more than cheaper tablets, the drug industry has paid out at least $5 billion in fines and settlements in the last eight years.
A senior administration official involved in Middle East policy tried on Thursday night to emphasize that parts of Mr. Sharon's speech were positive, especially his call for immediate steps to ease conditions of Palestinians living in the West Bank and for the dismantling of "unauthorized" settlement outposts built in the last few years.
The study, based on 257 interviews conducted in refugee settlements in neighboring Chad in the last two weeks of July, is part of the Bush administration's investigation of whether the killing in Darfur amounts to genocide.
The total bill, $105 million, will include $80 million in payments to scammed AT&T customers, $20 million to "state governments participating in the settlement," with the last $5 million going to the FCC itself, it said today in a statement.
His promise to remove about 100 settlement outposts put up in the last few years is welcome, although it was not the first time he has made it.
More than eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal judge in Manhattan has been asked to approve settlements in two of the last remaining wrongful-death lawsuits.
