Bookmakers in the UK, William Hill, will not have to pay out about a million pounds after gamblers in the UK bet that it would snow on Christmas Day, and although it did get cold, it didn't snow. The bookmakers are...
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Make it easy, time for banker's guillotine At one point last week the Morgan Stanley $11bn pay pot was greater than the entire stock market value of the business. Morgan staff could buy the bank Goldman Sachs...
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" A PRIMARY school teacher accused of calling a pupil a "dumb blonde" is among those to be hit with discrimination complaints. A confidential payout and apology was made after the girl's furious mother consulted Victoria's discrimination watchdog, the Herald Sun has...
"by The Times-Picayune, Monday June 02, 2008, 8:02 AMFor the second time this year a winning Powerball ticket has been purchased in the New Orleans area.The latest, worth $34.1 million, was sold in Gretna. The ticket matched all the numbers in the Saturday drawing, state...
There have been an increasing number of reports of payouts for civilian deaths and injuries in Iraq."An Iraqi teenager accidentally shot by a British soldier is to receive £2m, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.The man - who cannot be named for legal reasons - will...
Some jealous employees are attacking this guy for doing the right thing, This whistle blower has cancer,"WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Bush administration paid a $5 million reward to a Coral Gables resident and...
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Ambev, a Brazilian brewing company, has been ordered to pay a former employee, who claims his job as a beer taster made him an alcoholic, nearly $50,000."He said that for more than a decade he drank around one and...
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Greylock is putting some scratch into Payoneer. These guys are doing some interesting stuff:"Founded in early 2005, New York-based Payoneer has raised $4M in Series A funding. Greylock Partners led the deal, and was joined by seed backer Crossbar Capital plus some angels."
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"The nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese said Friday it will pay $60 million to settle 45 sex abuse lawsuits, the largest payout yet by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and among the biggest resulting from the molestation crisis that has plagued the church.
The cases...
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"California - Flexing his veto power for the first time, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday struck down a $2.7 million settlement in the case of a black firefighter tricked into eating dog food at a Westchester fire station."