11.   And if it is lost, it would give the NBA the unenviable honor of being the first professional league to lose an entire season to a labor dispute.

12.   And so we come to the labor dispute between the National Basketball Association and the National Basketball Players Association.

13.   And then there is the threatened goonism, the tough talk that attends all prolonged labor disputes.

14.   And there are no labor disputes looming anywhere close to the horizon.

15.   And that is not bluster, said Joseph Blasi, a professor of management-labor relations at Rutgers University who has studied many airline labor disputes.

16.   And, so far, the region has been able to dodge major labor disputes that stoke anxiety in among workers.

17.   Another focuses on whether Harold Ickes, a former deputy White House chief of staff, lied about efforts to assist the Teamsters union in a labor dispute.

18.   Another airline labor dispute may affect more Atlanta travelers this weekend.

19.   Another centers on whether Harold Ickes, the former White House deputy chief of staff, lied about efforts to help the teamsters resolve a labor dispute.

20.   As for the labor dispute, Coppedge laid a curse on both sides.