Hearings he called ultimately led to the cancellation of a $23 billion deal for aerial refueling tankers between Boeing and the Air Force as well as to the ethical investigations that resulted in the $615 million settlement, one of the largest ever imposed on a military contractor.
Organized by Eric Kjellgren, assistant curator for Oceanic art, it is billed as the first exhibition in the United States devoted to the art of this tiny Polynesian settlement, one of the most remote inhabited places on earth.
Bodrifty Farm's reconstructed Celtic Chief's Roundhouse is smack bang on the doorstep of the remnants of an Iron Age settlement, one of the most important of its kind in western Europe.
That's the beginning of the Aboriginal community post-settlement, one of the first ones in the country.
The $8.5 million settlement, one of the highest ever paid by an accounting firm, "reflects the seriousness of their misconduct".
Francis starts his trip in Nairobi, where he will visit the Kangemi settlement, one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.
The settlement, one of the largest ever in civil litigation, comes after nearly 20 Vioxx civil trials over the last two years from New Jersey to California.
In the Perdue settlement, one of the largest reached by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Administration, the company agreed to pay its workers in the future for all time spent putting on and removing protective gear.
The divorce settlement, one of the largest in British history, was a small portion of his fortune but unseemly stories of his private life became an embarrassing staple of the tabloids.
At a news conference announcing the settlement, one of the 11 plaintiffs, Paula Loving, said that she had to leave the parks department because the stress of working there gave her migraines.
