61.   Stern and Hunter are expected to call each other Friday and set up a bargaining session for early August.

62.   That is why, sources say, the NBA can afford to bicker over trivialities and cancel bargaining sessions.

63.   Suspecting that the union was reneging on its word, the league canceled a bargaining session that had been scheduled for Saturday.

64.   That led to a marathon two-day bargaining session in New York Tuesday and Wednesday, and once Tagliabue entered the talks, the extension agreement was reached.

65.   The announcement, which followed a daylong bargaining session on Wednesday, took some in the theater world by surprise.

66.   The bargaining session is expected to draw half a dozen or so owners and a dozen or so players.

67.   The bargaining session itself is expected to be scheduled for Wednesday.

68.   The encounters ended up being gestures of reciprocal etiquette, these Republicans said, and not intense bargaining sessions.

69.   The first is not expected to be held until midweek, and it will be the first bargaining session since the strike began a week ago.

70.   The lockout is in its fifth month, and no bargaining sessions have been scheduled.