41.   Kate Spade has taken the stance that it has no control over the labor practices of its contractors.

42.   Last month, for example, Nike Inc. bowed to pressure and agreed to far-reaching changes in the labor practices at the factories that churn out its shoes.

43.   Kessler also has filed an antitrust suit against the league, accusing it of unfair labor practices for resuming negotiations with the union Thursday.

44.   Linda Bell, an economics professor at Haverford College who has studied labor practices in the United States and Germany, applauded the move toward more flexible vacation time.

45.   Many of these resolutions deal with company labor practices, executive pay and environmental issues.

46.   Many people wish he were shrinking heads instead of hanging out the dirty laundry of despicable labor practices by U.S. apparel manufacturers here and abroad.

47.   Meanwhile, Japanese officials view U.S. demands that it reform its labor practices as an infringement on its sovereignty.

48.   Modeled after labor practices first used more than a century ago, it was set up as a way to force players and teams to settle salary disputes.

49.   Nike Inc. came under fire this week from labor rights groups for its labor practices in Vietnam and Indonesia.

50.   Nike has also recently hired a company run by Andrew Young, the former Atlanta mayor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to review its labor practices.