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The state and Georgia Tech’s federally funded research arm will pay $900,000 to settle sex discrimination lawsuits by two former employees, attorneys said Tuesday. The settlements were finalized Monday, according to Atlanta attorneys Richard Robbins and Alexa Ross.

While taking the public relations firm of Manning Selvage & Lee as a client may create no conflict of interest for King & Spalding, it is certainly creating an awkward situation.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday granted International Business Machines’ request to forestall the state from installing about $10 million of new Hitachi mainframe computers.

A lawsuit over a shipboard concession could throw off the timing of the $28 million upgrade planned for the SS Independence, now en route to Virginia for refurbishment.

The state’s largest mining company is accusing two former employees of conspiring with vendors of the firm in a kickback scheme related to the export of kaolin, Georgia’s most valuable mineral.

Like most people with health coverage, John McGann didn’t worry much about the high cost of medical care. Even when the Houston music store employee came down with AIDS in December 1987, he was confident his medical bills would be paid.

Developers Portman-Barry Investments Inc. and Homart Development Co., having battled in the political arena for three years over the rights to prime North Fulton real estate, are now thrusting and parrying in court.