11.   For the first time, I believe Fehr and the union are more interested in settling the labor impasse than settling scores.

12.   He even alluded to a failure of Roosevelt to solve an earlier labor impasse.

13.   If the labor impasse is solved in October, the league would be incapable of starting the season on time without the proper preparation.

14.   In fact a Democrat, New York Sen. Daniel Moynihan, already has introduced legislation that would end the exemption and, presumably, the current labor impasse.

15.   In their longest bargaining session during the nearly five-month-old labor impasse, both sides made compromises.

16.   It has elicited talk from the players of penalizing the two networks by not doing interviews both during and after the current labor impasse.

17.   Leave it to basketball, after the first labor impasse in major-league sports that pitted veteran players against each other, to have the swiftest return to normalcy.

18.   Talks in the National Hockey League labor impasse abruptly broke off yesterday, leaving both sides saying the season is in jeopardy.

19.   The last time their deal was up, they missed games because of a labor impasse.

20.   The silence of not playing NBA games because of a labor impasse is screeching in the din of constant lockout lingo.