The result was a weak settlement with the federal government, which ends next year.
That undermined the government's negotiating strength, antismoking advocates say, paving the way for a potentially weak settlement.
No, the real reason the O.C.C. raced to come up with its weak settlement proposal is that last month, a document surfaced that contained a rather different set of terms with the banks.
Mr. Spitzer accused the S.E.C. of reaching a weak settlement with Putnam Investments, the giant company whose fund managers had reaped profits for themselves and hurt investors with personal trading.
(The story also describes, in damning detail, the pathetically weak settlement recently negotiated – if you can call it that – by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the nation's top bank regulator. But let's leave that for another day).
Nevertheless, the formation of Cr(OH 3 with gel properties has weak settlement performance, making it necessary to add a coagulant aid to reduce the settling time and improve the settling effect.
This reflects their vulnerable living condition, which is validated by the findings on their weak settlement type, poorer access to basic household utilities, and higher proportion of economic damages incurred by hazards.
I also can't imagine AGs like Eric Schneiderman and Kamala Harris, who have built their political brand and base dramatically by standing up against a weak settlement, agreeing at this late date to something bad.
However, as Stephen Burd recently reported, a previous effort by the California attorney general's office, under then-AG Jerry Brown, to curb abuses by Corinthian resulted in a weak settlement, and political friendships may have played a role.
I don't know all the legal ins and outs of this, but I do know politics, and a weak settlement at this point doesn't make any sense to me.
