81.   Short-term, what May hopes to do is help keep the acrimony out of the labor negotiations and the two sides focused on a long-term solution.

82.   Selig, Reinsdorf and Ravitch believed that commissioners have insinuated themselves in labor negotiations unfairly and to the detriment of the clubs.

83.   So far, though, city officials have used privatization mainly as a threat in labor negotiations.

84.   So who needs labor negotiations?

85.   Such threats are not uncommon in tough labor negotiations, and are often dropped.

86.   Strictly speaking, Giuliani is a bystander in the labor negotiations between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency, and the transit union.

87.   Talks with Ford have broken off, suggesting that Ford will not be the lead company, as it has been for the last two sets of labor negotiations.

88.   The art of compromise is what labor negotiations are all about.

89.   The aviation and telecommunications industries also are going through sensitive labor negotiations.

90.   The baseball labor negotiations that disappeared more than three months ago could come back soon.