61.  Trucking companies have good reason to be concerned about the uncertainty surrounding the union leadership, analysts said.

62.  Union leadership had tentatively accepted the offer in November.

63.  Union leadership has already rejected that proposal.

64.  Union officials at locals around the country were meeting today and making preparations for a walkout, should the union leadership in Detroit order one.

65.  Watching them wring concessions from the players for the last three months while verbally denigrating the union leadership has been like watching a mugging in slow-motion.

66.  Weak union leadership and weak commitment from the players combined for a cave-in.

67.  Workers in unions get their directions not from their bosses but from their union leadership.

68.  Bell, who is in his seventh season, was one of three NL umpires who broke with the union leadership.

69.  Both the union leadership and the group backing decertification, led by NBA stars Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing, were confident of victory.

70.  But it was derailed when Jordan and Patrick Ewing, displeased with the proposed deal and with the union leadership, advocated dissolving the union.