Mar 14th, 2010 · NATO forces, who took the southern Afghan region of Marjah last month, are now trying to establish their hold on it by winning the confidence of local people. That includes paying for damage to businesses and farms from battle and paying condolences to families of civilians who were killed. A U.S. Marine commander faces one of his hardest tasks: apologizing and paying compensation to the family of a father whom Marines killed by mistake.
Keywords: Afghan · local · civil · Compensation · Business · region · commander · Marine · NATO · Family · families · apologized
Mar 7th, 2010 · The people of Iceland voted overwhelmingly against a plan to compensate the British and Dutch governments to the tune of about $5 billion Saturday. The referendum followed a lengthy grass-roots campaign against paying debts racked up by Iceland's bankers just before the Great Recession.
Keywords: Compensation · British · campaign · debt · Dutch · Icelandic · bankers · referendum · payback · Great Recession
Feb 14th, 2010 · More than 10 years after the Agriculture Department promised to compensate black farmers for discrimination, some 70,000 of them have yet to be paid. Many of these farmers plan to be in Washington on Monday to ask the government to pay up.
Keywords: settlement · Compensation · Washington · Farmers · discrimination · Agriculture Department
Feb 14th, 2010 · More than 10 years after the Agriculture Department promised to compensate black farmers for discrimination, some 70,000 of them have yet to be paid. Many of these farmers plan to be in Washington on Monday to ask the government to pay up.
Keywords: settlement · Compensation · Washington · Farmers · discrimination · Agriculture Department
Feb 8th, 2010 · The Minneapolis rapper known as Dessa doesn't have a typical hip-hop profile, but her talent more than compensates. Maggie Wander graduated from college at 20 and then worked as a medical writer. She's an outspoken fan of Jeff Buckley. And, under the name Dessa, Wander just released a terrific hip-hop album called A Badly Broken Code.
Keywords: Compensation · rapper · medical · Colleges · Writer · graduate · album · Hip · talented · Minneapolis · terrific · Jeff Buckley
Feb 4th, 2010 · Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's compensation czar, says though he is personally "not pleased" with insurance giant AIG's decision to award $100 million in bonuses to it financial products division, the contracts for the awards were entered into when the economic climate was different. The division was largely responsible for the company's risky investments that forced a U.S. government bailout.
Keywords: products · administration · financial · divisions · economic · AIG · Compensation · company · Climate · bailout · czar · contract
Feb 2nd, 2010 · Some of the victims of Bernard Madoff's financial scheme will be in court this morning. They are suing the court-appointed trustee of Madoff's estate over the way he figured their compensation.
Keywords: financial · Compensation · victims · estate · trustees · Madoff · Bernard Madoff
Jan 14th, 2010 · The billions of dollars in bonuses and other compensation awarded to bank executives has outraged Americans. NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says it's beginning to feel a little like the 1930s, when President Franklin Roosevelt inveighed against "the economic royalists."
Keywords: Americans · executives · economic · Compensation · outrage · dollars · bonuses · 1930 · bankers · President Franklin Roosevelt · inveighed · royalists
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