31.   House and Senate negotiators plan to hold their first official bargaining session today to resolve differences between their two versions.

32.   However, barring a major compromise, neither those talks nor a bargaining session scheduled for next week would prevent the league from canceling more games.

33.   However, union people who have attended bargaining sessions said that Harrington never has participated in substantive discussions about tax proposals, leaving those to other committee members.

34.   Hunter said he planned to speak to NBA commissioner David Stern on Wednesday night or Thursday morning to set up either a one-on-one meeting or a full bargaining session.

35.   If a new meeting can be scheduled for this week, it is unlikely to be a full bargaining session.

36.   In other words, at the bargaining session, the owners will adhere to the salary cap they desperately want to implement to control their player costs.

37.   Instead of preparing to play games, the two sides are preparing for another bargaining session, tentatively set for Saturday.

38.   In their longest bargaining session during the nearly five-month-old labor impasse, both sides made compromises.

39.   Is Arafat cynically allowing militant groups to carry out their bombings in hopes of leveraging the terror into Israeli concessions in some future bargaining session?

40.   It was the first bargaining session in eight days.