21.   Dennis Fitzgerald, a spokesman for MacMillan Bloedel, said his company settled with Greenpeace after years of protests.

22.   David Cassel, who runs an Internet newsgroup devoted to criticism of AOL, pointed out that the company recently settled a federal lawsuit charging it with overbilling customers.

23.   Earlier, Jenkins said the company would not settle.

24.   Earlier this year, tobacco companies settled lawsuits by Mississippi and Florida, helping to pave the way for passage of federal settlement legislation.

25.   Fagan thinks the companies will settle out of court, as the companies in the Holocaust cases did, if just to avoid nasty public relations.

26.   Foley said the company had settled claims over annuities because it thought that the insurance industry would see extensive litigation over the investments.

27.   He alleged that Maledon made a false statement in the meeting when he reassured Symington that the tobacco companies would not settle the litigation.

28.   He was among the first tobacco analyst to say cigarette companies would settle health-related litigation in return for protections from future lawsuits.

29.   He was one of the first tobacco analysts to say cigarette companies would settle health-related litigation in return for protections from future lawsuits.

30.   Hernandez said the company settled on keeping the work in Long Beach due to tax benefits derived from being in an enterprise zone.