Adams, Harkness settles
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The Boston investment firm Adams, Harkness Inc. will pay $575,000 to settle charges that it failed to disclose it was paid by investment banks to write research reports on the banks' underwriting clients, regulators said yesterday. Adams, Harkness also failed to preserve copies of internal e-mails as required by law, they said.
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John Hancock agreed on Monday to pay $21.2 million to end a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the mutual fund company's failure to disclose certain revenue-sharing schemes, the agency said.
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Post Properties Inc. and its founder John A. Williams said they have a settlement agreement resolving all their outstanding differences.
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UK News, LONDON - Gerry Adams, the head of the IRA&#39;s political ally has held unprecedented talks with Northern Ireland&#39;s police chief amid frantic efforts to seal a lasting settlement in the London-ruled province.
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The founders of the PBHG mutual funds agreed to pay &#36;160 million in restitution and civil fines, and to accept a lifetime ban from the securities industry to resolve allegations they facilitated improper trading in the funds, regulators said on Wednesday.
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Sinn FÃ©in&#39;s president, Gerry Adams, last night placed responsibility for clinching an agreement to restore the power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland firmly in the hands of the British and Irish government - despite the enduring barrier of mistrust
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Gary Pilgrim and Harold Baxter, co- founders of the money management firm Pilgrim Baxter &amp; Associates Ltd., agreed to pay record fines of $80 million each to settle regulators&#39; complaints
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The good news: An NHL settlement is close, perhaps as close as two hours of serious discussion and compromise. The bad news: It might be a year, or longer, before the parties spend those two hours together.
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American International Group and federal regulators have completed a settlement that calls for the company to pay $126 million in penalties and restitution and to
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MILWAUKEE (Sports Network) - The Milwaukee Brewers and ace  righthander Ben Sheets avoided arbitration on Sunday, as the  two sides agreed to a one- year deal. Financial terms of the  agreement were not released.
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Global grocery retailer Ahold NV has agreed to a settlement of civil fraud charges over an alleged $1 billion overstatement of earnings in a deal with U.S. regulators that does not fine the company.
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- An investment firm that was found in breach of contract in a lawsuit involving the state&#39;s pension fund has settled for $15 million, the two sides announced Monday.
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Pop star Michael Jackson and his former wife Debbie Rowe have reached a settlement in their long-running child custody dispute, her lawyer said on Friday.
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By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  SJ-0523-Hewlett-Packard-settles-with-SEC   Hewlett-Packard settles with SEC   Therese Poletti  San Jose  Mercury News, Calif.
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WASHINGTON - District of Columbia Mayor Anthony A. Williams and council chairman Linda W. Cropp reached agreement Monday night on a stadium financing package that they said will satisfy Major League Baseball by guaranteeing construction of a permanent
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WASHINGTON -- The two founders of the Pilgrim-Baxter mutual fund family have agreed to pay $80 million each to settle regulators&#39; charges of improper trading of their funds to benefit themselves and friends at the expense of longer-term shareholders, the
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Jermaine O&#39;Neal said he was relieved rather than vindicated. However, both he and his coach viewed yesterday&#39;s ruling by a federal judge in Manhattan as confirmation that character counts.