21.   Indeed, the Clinton administration has encouraged employee ownership as a means to preserve jobs.

22.   Indeed, the Clinton administration has encouraged employee ownership as a way to preserve jobs.

23.   Neidl said a bankruptcy filing would also allow the company to end employee ownership, giving management a freer hand in running the company.

24.   People who study the issue of employee ownership say that making it work is difficult, though possible.

25.   Several studies have found that employee ownership alone does not affect the performance of large companies.

26.   Some consultants also worry that ESOPs can be used by management to entrench their jobs, using employee ownership as a takeover defense.

27.   Somewhere not far below motherhood and apple pie on the roll call of all-American virtues is employee stock ownership.

28.   The Arlington, Virginia-based company refused to say if it would include employee stock ownership as part of its new negotiations.

29.   The growth in employee stock ownership has been sharp.

30.   The move to employee ownership followed three years of losses and helped return UAL to profitability.