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There is no sense whatsoever to remain here. The settlements must be evacuated.

Shimon Peres

The first thing we want is a very clear position regarding settlements. We cannot say that there's a peace process while the land confiscation, settlement activity, settlement expansion are taking place.

Ahmed Qorei

Many Japanese importers will have their last business day of the year on Wednesday. They needed the dollar for the year-end settlements of their businesses.

Tatsuro Karitani

This is the first time that an incumbent prime minister is declaring his intention of dismantling dozens of settlements, and nothing is happening. No demonstrations and protests, no rebellion within the party, and no media uproar.

Aluf Benn

U.S. Policy toward the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories is unequivocal and has long been a matter of public record. We consider it to be contrary to international law and an impediment to the successful conclusion of the Middle East peace process.

Cyrus Vance

For a long time Israelis have long stopped going to Gaza even if they have continued to carry out their military obligations. They are not even able to pinpoint these famous settlements on a map.

Tom Segev

The amendments mean pursuing Jewish settlements and not resuming the negotiations from the point where they left off.

Saeb Erekat

The AXA and New York Life settlements are important building blocks not only toward seeking financial recovery for the losses resulting from the Armenian Genocide but also in our ultimate goal, which is for Turkey and the US to officially acknowledge the genocide.

Mark Geragos

The Palestinians are very worried about the expansion of settlements in the West Bank, particularly around Jerusalem ... this will destroy the possibility of a viable Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza.

Ahmed Qurie

When I was at the Ministry of Housing, I set the objective of expanding (settlements in) outlying areas.

Yitzhak Levy

The settlements must be evacuated; the settlers cannot remain.

Shimon Peres

His words are (that) he won't give us anything on Jerusalem, on the (West Bank) settlements, on our refugees. What kind of peace can we make with those words?

Saeb Erekat

If Israel wants to live in peace in the region, and it's clear it doesn't want to live in peace in the region, it wants to live with its expansion, with its settlements, with its occupation, something that not only Arabs and Palestinians would not accept, but everybody in the world will not accept.

Fayssal Mekdad

These are all individual settlements so the union doesn't have to vote on anything to approve it. It's a fair settlement ... absolutely, and it resolves a number of concerns raised by the officers and the city.

Alex Garcia

These settlements send a strong signal to all landlords, management companies and home sellers that they have a legal obligation to inform tenants and buyers about potentially dangerous lead in their properties.

Thomas Skinner

That the settlements could go that high shows us the seriousness of the harm and the cover-up.

Barbara Blaine

Pensions are not protected from equitable settlements in a divorce.

John C. Collins

These settlements, which have recovered nearly $5 million in overpayments and penalties, demonstrate the government's strong commitment to protecting the Medicare system. We will continue to scrutinize medical providers' billing to ensure compliance with medical coding guidelines and to protect every taxpayer's investment in the Medicare system.

Rodger Heaton

[Intermec and Symbol also have agreed to negotiate settlements to their other intellectual-property disputes. They'll conduct a] 90-day moratorium ... We expect to build more than 400 million inlays in 2006, so it was a good time to sit down and work things out.

John Bruno

Everybody has to move; run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements, because everything we take now will stay ours. Everything we don't grab will go to them.

Ariel Sharon

Settlements of these rate cases allow us to continue to make investments that deliver value to our customers.

Roger Mitchell

Overall, these new agreements and settlements have enabled United to reduce its non-fuel cost per available seat mile (cost per available seat mile ex-fuel) by approximately 22% during the three years while in bankruptcy.

Bob Mcadoo

But even when liability has been imposed, it has ultimately been paid by a combination of corporate directors and officers liability insurance. Settlements in the Enron case may indicate a change to history because individual directors at Enron had to make significant payments from their personal assets.

Derek Hong

There was not only a disengagement in 2005, but also a lot of building in settlements and outposts.

Yariv Oppenheimer

The offer we presented is balanced and competitive, respects the contributions of our team and compares favorably with recent contract settlements in our industry.

Jerry Calhoun

This is an extremely serious situation as these refugees live in camps and settlements in remote areas of Zambia and rely entirely on WFP for their food supplies.

David Stevenson

These anti-competitive settlements in the pharmaceutical industry are a major anti-trust problem. These settlements are thwarting competition and depriving consumers of the benefits of low-cost generic drugs.

Carl Shapiro

The evacuation of the settlements from the Gaza Strip is not just a struggle over the question of the fate of the territories. Fundamentally, it is the first great battle over the question of religion and state.

Amos Oz

We haven't gotten every penny back and we won't get every penny back. But given all of the hurdles we have had to overcome, more than $5 billion (in settlements) is pretty damn good.

Tom Dresslar

We expect all the settlements to be evacuated during the next week.

Avi Zelba

We are relieved to put this issue behind us so that we can focus more sharply on the key factors that drive our business results and that continued to challenge us throughout 1999, ... It is difficult at this time to predict what impact, if any, the settlements will have on these factors.

David Banks

So areas that were high and dry even a few centuries ago ... a lot of these settlements are now under 10 feet of water.

David Bernstein

For the state of Israel to survive and exist, it has to deepen its presence and invest more in the settlements.

Noam Arnon

Refugees, Jerusalem, borders, Jewish settlements and water are issues reserved to the final-status talks between the two sides and nothing should pre-empt or pre-judge the outcome of the final status talks before they begin.

Saeb Erekat

We have found that large land owners became local leaders in their communities during the early settlements. Some of the names are very prominent in state politics and some are big on a local level.

Terri Mcbride

It demeans the survivors. The archdiocese has apparently abandoned the compassionate and respectful manner that characterized the previous round of settlements.

Tony Cotillo

Settlements continue to grow today encouraged by Israeli government policies, ... Settlement activity must stop.

William Burns

Like all settlements it's a compromise, but it's a good deal all round -- it is the best solution for Gucci's minorities and for LVMH it is positive as well.

Antoine Colonna

Right now there are no Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip . The only Israeli citizens (in the strip) are the security forces.

Dan Harel

Close on everything: on the settlements, on the borders, on the refugees, and on Jerusalem.

Yossi Beilin

He sabotaged the Mitchell report instead of accepting it when he said that he will continue building settlements. So what does the Mitchell report mean? Sharon wants to continue building settlements; therefore there will be no peace. Therefore if the occupation continues and the Israel army continues raiding Palestinian cities and people. So what does it mean when he accepts Mitchell report?

Ahmed Abdel Rahman

High-profile, ugly cases that the general public is aware of. The settlements in these cases where the damages were enormous are themselves going to be enormous.

Bruce Carton

These huge settlements are a new phenomenon for the SEC, ... I don't know how else you would handle it.

Bruce Carton

Because there have been no settlements reached for the securities action with any of the less-involved banks, it is difficult to know what reserves are prudent.

Ted Clark