21.   None of the claims has been paid, but the Italians have made settlement offers in five cases.

22.   None of the people involved admit or deny guilt in their settlement offers, the filing said, nor do they agree to pay fines or penalties.

23.   On Friday, Microsoft delivered a settlement offer with more than a dozen proposals.

24.   Other experts agreed with Rossum and said the county wanted to hide its mistakes through the settlement offer that requires everyone involved to keep the details secret.

25.   Plaintiffs would be obliged to give defendants a chance to make a settlement offer before the lawyers had invested much in legal maneuvering.

26.   Patrick LaCombe, president of Senior Resources, a nonprofit homeless advocacy group, did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the settlement offer.

27.   Rep. Porter J. Goss, R-Fla., the sponsor of a bill to provide federal relief to affected hemophiliacs, praised the settlement offer.

28.   Sarabyn and Chojnacki intend to exploit the inconsistency between the settlement offers and the firings.

29.   She would not say whether the company is considering settlement offers for those infected with hepatitis C.

30.   The attorneys general apparently are going to talk about a proposed settlement offer by Microsoft.