1.   A management negotiator hinted over the weekend that the owners would be willing to concede on a number of points if the union would accept salary limits for rookies.

2.   During talks before the strike, management negotiators said they needed fundamental changes in workplace rules to keep the system operating at peak efficiency.

3.   Ravitch, of course, is the former chief management negotiator who pushed for a system of revenue sharing based on a salary cap.

4.   She left the impression that it might be a way to deal with union negotiator Donald Fehr and management negotiator Richard Ravitch.

5.   The key management negotiators left behind were Milwaukee Brewers vice president Wendy Selig-Prieb and Chicago Cubs president Andy MacPhail, who both reside in Arizona.

6.   They are waiting to hear from management negotiators.

7.   Union head Donald Fehr and management negotiator Randy Levine signed a memorandum of agreement four days later.

8.   While acknowledging that technology might reduce the number of jobs, management negotiators promised that it would not cause layoffs for any current workers.

9.   Management negotiators presented the proposal to the union on Thursday night along with a new labor plan, but prospects for player approval were unclear.

10.   Management negotiator John Harrington has said that unless an agreement was reached by Thursday, owners would impose a salary cap.