51.   The extension would ensure a degree of labor peace rare in this era of professional sports.

52.   The labor peace that commissioner David Stern worked so diligently to keep in the National Basketball Association two years ago may be threatened again as early as next spring.

53.   The luxury tax is the cornerstone of the agreement that could bring labor peace to baseball for at least the next four years.

54.   The NHL also has labor peace.

55.   The owners would expect the union to reject an altered agreement, but then it would appear that the players and not the owners were undermining labor peace.

56.   The move was an unsettling development for a league that in recent years has enjoyed labor peace.

57.   The postwar social bargain, under which workers received steady increases in wages and benefits in exchange for labor peace, is in jeopardy, he says.

58.   The rupture of this season might be rationalized as necessary to achieve long-term labor peace in baseball, except that so far it has accomplished nothing.

59.   The season will be the first in four that will start with labor peace between owners and players.

60.   The search for NBA labor peace continues, and Thursday that shaky quest was centered in Los Angeles.