51.   Team president Larry Lucchino has become a key operative for commissioner Bud Selig on labor issues.

52.   Surely there are other equally qualified labor lawyers in Washington who would not be so conspicuously hostile to labor issues.

53.   That is unlikely to happen unless labor issues have been resolved.

54.   The Citizens Budget Commission, an advocacy group funded by business leaders that has bitterly feuded with the mayor on labor issues, expressed dismay at the contract.

55.   The board said it needed the extra time for a full consideration of environmental and labor issues associated with the dismantling of Conrail.

56.   The company is facing the same labor issues in the U.S., where it is trying to negotiate a labor contract with the United Auto Workers union.

57.   The contract also would go a long way toward resolving labor issues that have burdened the company with some of the highest costs in the industry.

58.   The company said, however, that it hired Ms. Martin, in part, for her expertise on labor issues.

59.   The Indian delegation arrived in Seattle with no expectation that the labor issue would be at the top of the American agenda.

60.   The Israeli government may eventually sell IAI once national security and labor issues are resolved.