Part of the settlement money will come from Switzerland, which said it would turn over $535 million to the Bank for International Settlements in Basel for Nigeria's use.
The leisure centre closed in 2002 and the building was bought by local property developer, Cranbourne, which announced it would turn the site into flats and restaurants.
JobsOhio would issue bonds to raise $500 million, which it would then turn over to the state.
(The news this week that Liggett Group, the most conciliatory tobacco firm, was inching towards a deal with some state attorney-generals in which it would merely turn over documents admitting that tobacco is addictive shows how little tobacco litigants have achieved).
In a poorly understood adaptation, some particularly winter-hardy trees can keep the sap within their cells liquid at temperatures far below those at which it would normally turn to ice crystals, in some cases to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit; this is called supercooling or deep supercooling.
The idea keeps resurfacing as a way to prevent outsourcing to the Third World - which it would, by turning portions of our own country into Third World enclaves.
It was weeks after Justice Department lawyers had presented to the Supreme Court their case against Arthur Andersen, which was seeking — successfully, it would turn out — to overturn its criminal fraud conviction in a prominent case.
