41.   Boston again closed within a goal with a startling strike by McEachern, the stuff of highlight films.

42.   Both Kyser and Gibson agree that these numbers reflect the impact of threatened strikes by actors and writers that front-loaded production to the early part of this year.

43.   Both the library administration and the union representing the library workers told reporters that the work by Cap Gemini was the main issue in a strike by library workers.

44.   -- Margret Moenig Raane, German retail union chief about nationwide strikes by retail workers that began today.

45.   A ban on labor strikes by teachers remains in place.

46.   A dispute at two Delphi Chassis Systems brake plants in Dayton, Ohio, may also lead to another strike by members of the United Automobile Workers union.

47.   A draft report released earlier this month concludes that mallards, American coots and other large birds raise the risk of bird strikes by commercial jets.

48.   A called strike by the umpire was an out.

49.   A much-publicized strike by caretakers in Los Angeles is led by a union almost entirely composed of recent Latino immigrants.

50.   A dispute over union negotiating rights at its Weipa bauxite mine in north Queensland led to national strikes by coal miners and waterfront workers last year.