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...overriding concern was to enable the survivors of the Holocaust, who were in displaced persons camps all over Europe, and the endangered Jewish minorities in the Arab world to join the established Jewish settlement in Palestine. The Jewish leadership made every possible effort to end the misery of the European refugees, rather than letting them languish for decades in camps as an international bargaining tool in a quest for an impossible dream...
...federal appeals court threw out the 1993 settlement of class actions against General Motors that would have given $1,000 coupons to the owners of 5.7 million older GM pickups. The trucks, equipped with "sidesaddle" gas tanks, are believed to pose a fire hazard in sideways crashes. The court ruled that the coupons, which could be used only in the purchase of new GM trucks, would be virtually worthless to poor truck owners unable to come up with the $5,000 to $7,000 needed for a new vehicle. The suit now returns to a lower court; GM will probably...
...want to buy personal finance software and would cause those buyers to miss out on the huge benefits from innovation." Newly-minted conventional wisdom, notesTIME technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who says Bingaman cracked down because of widespread criticism that shelet Microsoft off too lightlyin a separate antitrust settlement. If a judge upholds Justice's new requests, he adds, "it's over. Or they spend years in court...
...scenario, the U.S. would attempt to arrange a stalemate similar to the one it gained in Korea in 1953. "We had a plan of sorts," says Bundy. "Grind up the other guy's army until he would presumably not take it anymore, and then we would get a political settlement." Rusk wrote in his memoirs, "I thought North Vietnam would reach a point when it would be unwilling to continue making those terrible sacrifices" and negotiate a settlement...
...Cyberspace special issue, we incorrectly referred to a settlement-house organization that offers Internet services to inner-city residents [Spring, 1995]. The correct name of the organization is the United Neighborhood Houses, which is the umbrella organization for 37 New York City settlement houses...