71.   The owners have decided that when talks resume, only lawyers will attend bargaining sessions.

72.   The reason he was in New York last week for those unproductive bargaining sessions was for personal business, not union solidarity.

73.   The owners demanded the reopener clause in the last bargaining session in the event that costs started to spin out of control.

74.   The players have not attended many bargaining sessions that have been held the past several months, but they regularly receive reports on the talks.

75.   The schedule of bargaining sessions emerged from that lunch.

76.   The six-month lockout ended Wednesday, the result of an all-night bargaining session between Stern and union executive director Billy Hunter.

77.   The two sides plan a full bargaining session Wednesday and group discussions on specific issues Tuesday and Thursday.

78.   The two sides were scheduled to hold a bargaining session Thursday night, at which the union planned to present a counterproposal to the one owners made Monday night.

79.   The union did not formally reject the proposal but is expected to do so at a bargaining session Thursday.

80.   The two sides were scheduled to meet at noon, and union representatives were on hand, following an inconclusive bargaining session last night.