1.   Both parties agreed to go to arbitration in order to avoid more strikes by the workers.

2.   The employers will have to be ready to compromise if they want to avoid a strike.

3.   Although they are not represented at the bargaining table, the network affiliates would certainly prefer to avoid a strike.

4.   Although Crandall was in Washington Thursday, and publicly asked President Clinton to intervene to avoid the strike, a spokesman for American said that .

5.   Although they had not been informed of the terms of the settlement, some hotel workers said Monday that they were anxious to avoid a strike.

6.   An alternative, he said, is that union officials might be willing to avoid strikes in exchange for a greater management role in the plant.

7.   As of Tuesday, Northwest Airlines was still holding out the possibility of avoiding a strike by its pilots, but prudent passengers should prepare for the worst.

8.   As a result, unions today try to avoid strikes.

9.   As the proceeding began, he was asked if American would be able to avoid a strike.

10.   Battenberg said he was hopeful that a strike could be avoided, and a GM spokesman repeated that view today.