41.   Dissident National Basketball Association players are increasing pressure on the league, which instituted a lockout after a failed attempt to reach a new labor agreement.

42.   Executive Director Donald Fehr spoke, like Selig, of the need for a new labor agreement and the promotion of the game.

43.   Few labor agreements currently contain explicit waivers of federal civil rights claims.

44.   Fleisher also directed his anger at the labor agreement, particularly the salary cap, which he said was unfair to the players.

45.   For that reason alone, you know that a new labor agreement was not going to come easily or without a skirmish.

46.   General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers are close to reaching a new three-year labor agreement, a person close to the negotiations said.

47.   General Motors Corp. is having even more difficulties reaching factory-level labor agreements.

48.   Fuel prices are high, and they just signed expensive new labor agreements.

49.   Gore can ill-afford alienating union members, a majority of whom support core labor standards and environmental protections as part of future labor agreements.

50.   He said Selig has agreed to allow him to do so, but only after baseball gets a new labor agreement.