51.   There were no crippling industrial strikes, no huge man-hour losses due to pickets or rallies, and no excessive demands for fewer working hours.

52.   Three days after their last contract expired, the writers hoped for an agreement that would avert a crippling strike for the TV and movie industry.

53.   To French workers who waged a crippling strike late last year, working less and playing more has become a battle cry for a better life.

54.   Two years of protests and crippling strikes appear to have achieved their purpose with the announcement Friday that a former supreme court justice has agreed to oversee new elections.

55.   Under threat of a widening walkout, the government and national labor union resumed talks Saturday aimed at ending a crippling strike by public workers.

56.   Union leaders have rejected the plan, which PAL says is needed for its survival after a series of crippling strikes.

57.   Greek sailors pushed on with their crippling strike action Saturday, in defiance of a court ruling that declared the stoppage illegal and threatened its leaders with prison terms.

58.   Her Awami League had staged a series of crippling strikes during its period in opposition.

59.   His arrest led to mass protests and a crippling strike.

60.   Hundreds of thousands of Indian truck drivers continued a crippling nationwide strike for the second day Tuesday, seriously affecting industries and business, union spokesmen said.