41.   The university authorities claimed after the talks that they had offered a package of generous proposals in an attempt to settle the dispute.

42.   He asked Mr Major to intervene and ask the company to go to the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service to settle the dispute.

43.   Administrative blunders and a four-year delay in settling the dispute were described yesterday as a scandal by union leaders involved in the battle.

44.   Already, countries in the region have settled border disputes and signed long-delayed treaties as they prepared for NATO membership.

45.   Already, hundreds of applicants have filed challenges with the World Intellectual Property Organization in Switzerland, a nonprofit group that settles trademark disputes.

46.   Although Jordan and Egypt have signed peace treaties settling territorial disputes with Israel, Palestinians have continued to demand independence and frequently clash with Israeli settlers.

47.   And once again, they pulled back, agreeing to settle a dispute over air cargo rights and thereby defusing another in a series of bitter trade conflicts.

48.   And it will establish a new bureaucracy, the World Trade Organization, to settle commercial disputes.

49.   And perhaps Kaiser can take comfort in knowing that the battle may have helped soften the sanctions when the HMO settled its dispute last week.

50.   And unlike Georgia and South Carolina, Mississippi will settle its dispute not in back-room negotiations but in a very public referendum.