31.   That averted a threatened strike that would have caused complications, because both Al Gore and Bill Bradley had vowed not to cross a picket line.

32.   That incident was unrelated to the threatened strike, prison officials said.

33.   The automaker and the United Auto Workers reached a settlement at an Indiana parts factory, preventing a threatened strike.

34.   The General Motors Corp. is facing a threatened strike next week over the exhausting grind at a colossal assembly and parts-making complex known as Buick City.

35.   The threatened strike at CA Metro de Caracas, the agency that runs the subway, coincides with fresh negotiations to set a new national minimum wage.

36.   The threatened strike at Falconbridge helped pull nickel and copper prices higher.

37.   Trans World Airlines said Wednesday that it lost money in its second quarter, citing a threatened strike by its Machinists union that scared away business passengers.

38.   United could appeal to Congress to intervene in a threatened strike.

39.   PAL union leaders did not set a date for the threatened joint strike.

40.   A threatened strike by British Airways ground staff at Heathrow was called off after members voted against the strike.