51.   The Philadelphia Phillies met with their top draft pick, J.D. Drew, yesterday in their effort to reach a contract agreement.

52.   The sides have failed to reach contract agreements in negotiations that began last fall.

53.   The union chose Ford on Tuesday as the lead company for talks on setting a pattern contract agreement.

54.   The United Automobile Workers union reached a tentative contract agreement with an important supplier to GM, averting a strike only minutes before the deadline.

55.   The union and company reached a three-year national contract agreement in November.

56.   The university and the New Mexico-based author later disagreed, however, about the scope of the last contract agreement.

57.   There is no better example of this than two contract agreements made last week by two players with the New England Patriots.

58.   They tried to engineer a trade for him, and had even worked out a contract agreement with his agent, Ralph Cindrich of Pittsburgh.

59.   Until a contract agreement had finally been reached, both Lamoriello and Guerin had apparently not budged on certain issues.

60.   Without a contract agreement, sports writing is edging closer to the same kind of labor disaster that befell baseball and hockey and threatens professional basketball.