21.   A strike by post office technicians is entering its fifth week with suggestions the action could soon spread.

22.   The decision was taken in spite of an almost three-to-one ballot for the strike by workers at the Albion works in Scotstoun.

23.   The strike by finance staff is over a demand for a regrading of pay levels to take into account work involved with the council tax.

24.   First, a strike by even a proportion of core workers such as train drivers or signalmen can paralyse the network.

25.   Meanwhile the new government of Violetta Chamorro successfully defused a week-long strike by leftist opponents.

26.   Also, a strike by truck drivers threatened for next week is keeping prices high.

27.   American Airlines slashed fares Saturday and resumed flights to domestic and international destinations just hours after a strike by its pilots was averted.

28.   Americans glued to CNN, MSNBC or ABCNews.com can get another perspective on the cruise missile strikes by visiting international news and information Web sites and chat areas.

29.   An artificially weak Japanese yen is contributing to the rash of recent UAW strikes by pressuring automakers to cut costs and union jobs, Yokich said.

30.   Analysts expect GM to earn back two-thirds of the profits lost to the strike by the end of the year.