Every semi-stable form of capitalism also needs some sort of settlement with the wider population, or at least a decisive section of it.
It's a case that, if the two sides don't reach some sort of settlement, could hang over her head all season.
But later, in an interview with Greta Van Susteren on her Fox News show, "On the Record," he said "there was some sort of settlement or termination" but "no big settlement".
Some sort of settlement — an agreement on a short prison term, perhaps — remains a theoretical possibility, but according to one member of Polanski's camp, "We have basically given up on making any sort of deal with Cooley.
In the early afternoon, Mr. Cain told a gathering at the National Press Club in Washington that "I am unaware of any sort of settlement" related to harassment accusations, which he called "a witch hunt".
A couple of weeks later, on Columbus Day, the regulators met again, this time in Washington, at the Georgetown Club, where they reached an outline agreement on the sort of settlement they wanted to arrive at.
It looks much like the sort of settlement George Bush envisages as the final destination of the so-called "road map" he has laid down for peace in Palestine, which both Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat say they are trying to follow.
But in an interview with Greta Van Susteren of the Fox News Channel shown Monday night, he acknowledged that in at least one case "there was some sort of settlement or termination," worth "maybe three months' salary".
Mr. Bonvillian said he was loath to accept any sort of settlement until he saw what the oil did to the blue crab population over the next several years.
A few days ago, as Jelani Cobb has written, the situation in Ferguson seemed close to some sort of settlement, or at least a move from the streets to the courts and the political arena.
