71.   Elsewhere, U.S. refiner Tosco Corp. and a union representing workers at three California refineries late yesterday reached a tentative agreement averting a strike.

72.   Eric Rabe, a Bell Atlantic spokesman, declined to say whether the tentative agreement included similar offers.

73.   Even if all the other tentative agreements fall through, Kozuback said the league will play with five teams.

74.   Even so, the tentative agreement was the most hopeful moment in many years of stymied talks that have frustrated mediators and federal jurists alike.

75.   Even though both sides have reached a tentative agreement, the battle between the two may continue.

76.   Even pilots who championed the tentative agreement, such as Sovich, indicated that the distrust between pilots and company executives runs deep.

77.   Eventually the two sides will come up for air, maybe to announce a tentative agreement that the guild leadership will recommend for ratification.

78.   Fleisher, reached late last night, said he would not let the tentative agreement deter him from proceeding with decertification.

79.   Feerick, who is the Dean of Fordham Law School, said the tentative agreement could not be viewed as a one-sided victory.

80.   Four AFL-CIO unions representing Kaiser Permanente workers in Southern California have reached tentative agreements with the giant health plan, the unions announced Tuesday.