21.   Team management has aggressively tried to trade Sprewell since the end of the season, after it was ruled they could not fire him for his attack.

22.   Team management tried to shield the players from the series of lawsuits, but Flores admits it was impossible to keep their minds completely off them.

23.   The biggest challenge facing the Bulls may come during the off-season, when management tries to keep a great team together.

24.   The first year, he said, management tried to stop him when he urged shareholders to vote for it.

25.   The humbled new management has tried to project a state of things to come.

26.   The St. Louis management tries to fill some of its empty rows by selling some tickets at half price.

27.   When management tried to get Carmichael to take another job, she and other attendants fought back.

28.   ASLEF and the RMT complained that management was trying to impose a reduction in holidays and other concessions as conditions for pay raises.

29.   But he denied the team management had tried to get support from their affiliates to stage a vote of no-confidence against Aini last week.

30.   Certainly not after management tried to get rid of the Expos and Minnesota Twins in November, while the glow of a glorious World Series was still bright.