Shortly before midnight, it released a new statement pledging to compensate customers who had been "left out of pocket" as a result of the problems.
The EU statement, designed to compensate the Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, for delaying a declaration of statehood beyond May 4 - the day the five-year Oslo 'land for peace' accords expire - was denounced by Mr Netanyahu even before it had been approved.
And then on May 21, Spitzer announced that Merrill had agreed to pay a $100 million fine; to issue a "statement of contrition"; and to compensate its research analysts "only for those activities and services intended to benefit Merrill Lynch investor clients," rather than, as had been the case, according to how much they helped the firm's investment-banking business.
The governor is bulking up on policy statements with a Democratic tilt to compensate for the perception that, though likable, he is a policy lightweight who veered too far to the right during the primaries.
Liberal Democrat transport spokesman Norman Baker issued this statement: "Michael O'Leary's outrageous decision not to compensate customers after the upheaval of the last week is a blatant defiance of EU consumer rules.
The government statement said that Venezuela has always been willing to compensate private interests for the nationalization of assets as long as the compensation was "fair and reasonable".
Its latest request for additional funds for compensation came after a committee addressing compensation disputes decided on additional measures to compensate victims who voluntarily evacuated, Tepco said in a statement.
Warsi's story was corroborated by Khan, who issued a statement saying she paid him when she stayed to compensate for the inconvenience caused and the additional costs he incurred.
But his behavior is an unfortunate statement on the extremes to which humans will self-fortify to compensate for an inadequacy or fill a void.
Now a whiff of conciliation albeit still a bit barbed, is in the air, according to the Vivendi statement: "M.I.T. has now contacted us and apparently recognizes its responsibility to compensate creators for the use of their works.
Naftogaz, the Ukrainian state company, issued a statement suggesting that it could tap gas flows bound for Europe to compensate for deep cuts in Ukrainian supplies — and possibly even disproportionately disrupt flows in retaliation for Gazprom's stance.
