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The NYT lead points out that the main new social programs of the Clinton budget--such as child-care programs and new teacher hiring--are linked to congressional approval of the national tobacco settlement.
If there was enough discrimination at Texaco to merit a $176 million settlement with the employees, then there was enough discrimination to merit a commensurate payment to Texaco stockholders--not from corporate coffers, but from the personal assets of the corporate executives who bilked their investors by failing to hire the best bargains in the labor market.
b) Resisted a settlement that would have saved the nation much embarrassment.
The settlement ends a legal struggle that has gone on for over six years, but individual women can still pursue their claims for damages of up to $550,000.
Michael Gordon ( Washington Week in Review ) calls Kofi Annan's deal with Saddam Hussein--Issue 2--more a "truce than a final settlement."