1.   However, it appears that in Essex at least, individual college principals have agreed to negotiate their introduction and avert strikes.

2.   Nonstop negotiations in an eleventh-hour attempt to avert a strike.

3.   By patient negotiation she succeeded in her mission of averting a strike.

4.   American Airlines and its pilots union made little progress toward averting a strike at midnight tonight, increasing the likelihood President Bill Clinton will intervene to stop it.

5.   An agreement that averted a strike last year with railway workers was contingent on the administration fully funding the operating budget, the aides said.

6.   An Inco spokesman said the company remains optimistic a strike can be averted.

7.   As the clock keeps ticking, the possibility of averting a strike at midnight Friday is made more difficult by the disunity among union leaders.

8.   Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Enterprises narrowly averted a strike last week, reaching an agreement with workers at four Toronto plants.

9.   Atlantic Southeast Airlines and its pilot union have resumed federally mediated contract talks in an effort to avert a strike.

10.   A longer strike was averted through a last-minute agreement.