Among the Bull Moosers in the crowd were former Democrats and Republicans, including future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, columnist Walter Lippman, "wise-use conservationist" Gifford Pinchot, Judge Learned Hand and settlement house pioneer Jane Addams, who became the first woman to give a nominating speech at an American political convention.
For 15 years, Cohen lived with her husband, a career army officer, and her sons in a large house in the Gaza Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim.
In one incident in early January, a milk seller was robbed at his house in Pakhtunabad, a ramshackle settlement in the city's northern outskirts.
We understand today that the White House has been informed that a settlement is very close for the black farmers, and the Justice Department is working it out.
Last month, its funding was slashed as part of the budget settlement between the White House and the House of Representatives, and its very survival appears to be under threat.
So the question is why push so hard for a big settlement now, when if you push hard and let the American people vote in 2012 and get rid of these hooligans in the House, we might actually have a reasonable settlement -- (applause) -- maybe more like a one-to-one relationship instead of three to one or worse?
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So I reached out to my friend John DeGroote of Settlement Perspectives, a former in-house counsel and Chief Legal Officer who knew far more about corporate interests than I ever would.
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It not only provided a respected and impartial figure to chair talks, but it effectively guaranteed the White House's involvement in helping to find a political settlement in Northern Ireland, between the north and the south and Dublin and London.
White House officials had, indeed, brokered last year's settlement between the attorneys general and the tobacco companies.
Congress and the White House expect to spend some of the money from a tobacco settlement on social programs.
The expectation is that these are slam dunks and that the in-house legal staff appreciates the need to accept a reasonable offer of settlement.
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The Palestinian gunman, armed with an automatic weapon, crept into the settlement and opened fire on two girls who were sitting outside their house, Israeli security sources told French news agency AFP.
Israel has sought to ring-fence East Jerusalem from any territorial retreat, and it hopes to annex the largest settlement blocs on the east side of the Green Line, which house a large majority of settlers.
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The memorial foundation, which plans to build a statue and memorial to disabled veterans on Capitol Hill near the Rayburn House Office Building, stopped using Quadriga in 2008, five months before the settlement agreement was reached.
Since the deal was announced, many other investors in the mortgage-backed securities it covers, like American International Group, have objected in court to the settlement, including a large number of investors who raced to the court house at the end of August to submit their disapproval before a deadline.
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The White House views a fight with big tobacco as a political winner, whether or not a national settlement can be salvaged this year.
Chafetz noted that House Democrats also pursued the case against Miers and Bolten in court, finally reaching a compromise settlement after Bush left office in 2009.
The discoveries also cleared up a long-standing mystery about a Roman lodging house found on the slopes above the present-day town of Thun, where there was a Roman temple and settlement.
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