1.   Both sides admitted there was a sense of urgency to end the strike quickly.

2.   The employees made the first move to end the strike.

3.   The workers said they would not end the strike until their demands were met.

4.   Madani and Belhadj, citing this concession, asked their followers at evening prayers in Algiers to end the strike.

5.   Although baseball players ended their strike Friday, it was not immediately clear whether replacement players would take the field as scheduled Sunday night.

6.   An effort to end the strike failed last Tuesday, when WHX Chairman Ronald LaBow and the United Steelworkers of America broke off informal talks.

7.   An agreement reached Monday ended the strike that focused on the growing use of part-time workers and efforts by UPS to back out of a multi-employer Teamster pension program.

8.   And the hopes some fans had that Congress or President Clinton would act to end the strike were misplaced.

9.   As a weapon for ending the strike, replacement baseball is firing blanks.

10.   BACK TO WORK AT ONE GM PLANT Workers at a General Motors plant in Indianapolis began returning to work after ratifying a deal to end a strike.