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...large financial settlement...
...Hugh decides to take on the tobacco lobby, along with several other well-connected plaintiff attorneys. He has never tried a major case before, but manages to stick with the lucrative suit until a settlement is reached in 1997. However, the $365 billion deal failed to get the required congressional approval...
George W. Bush, friend to Big Business, can't stop the tobacco settlement. But he can still tax the heck...
...president isn't all tax cuts and "give the people back their money" when it comes to the fat settlement that lawyers routinely score when they take on Big Business and win. Certainly not when it comes to the trial lawyers who, after sticking it to Big Tobacco in that 25-year, $200 billion settlement last year, will be taking home $10 billion in legal fees, paid in installments, over the next 10 years...
...fractious domestic politics and its relations with the Palestinians. The broad terms of that unity-government agreement will be an undertaking by Sharon to respect existing treaties with the Palestinians signed by his predecessors; concerted efforts to make peace with Israel's neighbors; and a moratorium on new Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. And there's no difficulty in any of those conditions for Sharon - he'd previously vowed to abide by signed agreements with the Palestinians but not the offers made by Barak. And settlement activity had actually increased under Barak, less in the form...