91.   The company usually sells off some assets and gets to renegotiate leases and labor contracts.

92.   The Canadian union can go on strike only when negotiating a new labor contract, and so insists on settling every possible issue before signing.

93.   The deal here clears the way for GM to seek a separate labor contract with the UAW in Detroit.

94.   The decrees would have ended the automatic renewal of industry-wide labor contracts and lets companies and employees negotiate directly -- without the intervention of trade unions.

95.   The existing labor contract between GM and the UAW gives hiring preference to unemployed UAW workers elsewhere.

96.   The current labor contracts at both companies followed one-year extensions.

97.   The four-year tentative labor contract has been hailed by union leaders, labor experts, Boeing officials and many striking Machinists.

98.   The groups would have no authority to negotiate labor contracts.

99.   The haggling over national labor contracts every three years in Detroit is a dramatic ritual, and it does set the broad terms of the relationship.

100.   The labor contract expires at midnight to Wednesday night.