1.   That was because of a two-day labor strike and an increase in earth tremors.

2.   Battles between the long-term credit banks and the Finance Ministry are as rare as labor strikes in Japan.

3.   Binding arbitration has been used to solve labor strikes in other industries, but never in baseball.

4.   Both companies are facing labor strikes at domestic manufacturing plants.

5.   -- Maple Leaf Foods Inc., after talks with unions broke off raising the likelihood of a labor strike at its pork-processing plants.

6.   A ban on labor strikes by teachers remains in place.

7.   Alberto, a union leader at an appliance manufacturing company, had helped lead numerous labor strikes.

8.   Budget cuts, labor strikes, campus austerity projects and the French nuclear tests have tarnished his image.

9.   Despite its glitzy image, Hollywood has had plenty of experience with the grittiness of labor strikes.

10.   Earlier this year he had three economy ministers in three weeks, and there have been six nationwide labor strikes during his administration.