21.   According to Hedges, a union contract would allow workers to count their years at other unionized stores toward pension vesting, vacation and other benefits.

22.   Administrators, barred under a new union contract from allowing teachers with emergency credentials to sponsor outside activities such as cheerleading, warned the end was near.

23.   After four weeks, to attract publicity and potential investors, the show converted to a union contract and had an official off-Broadway opening.

24.   All other sick-leave benefits are either addressed in union contracts or left to the discretion of the employer.

25.   Both the governor and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are refusing to pay for faculty salary increases that are in the union contract for next year.

26.   But airline spokesman Tim Smith said the pilots were within allowable work-shift limits set by union contracts and federal law.

27.   But coverage for retired salaried workers not protected by union contracts will drop over the next few years.

28.   But even longtime political allies of business in the Kohl government have expressed dismay at the decision to cut sick pay benefits without renegotiating the union contract.

29.   But in Asheville, without strikes or union contracts, Dickerson makes monthly presentations to assembly line workers.

30.   But it has declined to accept the TWA union contracts, a stance that has angered the machinists association.