1.   While the airline has slashed costs in many areas, it so far has failed to reach cost-cutting labor agreements.

2.   America West is already spending more on maintenance and could face higher bills for labor agreements this year and next.

3.   An official timetable for the return of National Basketball Association referees was being delayed until Wednesday, when the new labor agreement was expected to be signed.

4.   And baseball still lacks a labor agreement.

5.   And baseball still has not reached a labor agreement.

6.   And if nothing else, they know there is safe harbor this year in Cleveland, with Jacobs Field guaranteed full, labor agreement or not.

7.   And President Bush has banned so-called project labor agreements on federal contracts, saying they hinder free market competition.

8.   And it did more for baseball than the impending labor agreement we keep hearing about.

9.   And Selig said recently that relocation would not be considered until a new labor agreement was in place.

10.   Any labor agreement was not necessarily a good agreement.