A Mets spokesman said the team had made a decision but was not prepared to announce it until the terms of a contract were completed.
Knaus insisted that would not be an issue this season, although it could hang over the team until a contract is completed.
One of the group, Prem Bahadur Tamang, was sent back to Nepal in June after organising a strike to demand their salaries, but Tamang says ETC refused to pay his bonus and leave allowance, or buy his air ticket home, all statutory requirements under Qatar's labour laws once a contract is completed.
A contract is completed when both parties have met their obligations, even if the terms estimated a longer completion time than was necessary.
Instead, the cemetery informed Mrs. Hamb that it would place the coffin in a wall crypt until the more than $56,000 marble mausoleum they said she had agreed to in a contract was complete.
Lawyers for Jordan said the two sides had mutually agreed to postpone filming until the summer of 1990, after a detailed contract was completed.
The deal for Szetela, who has signed a two-year contract, was completed just before the transfer deadline Friday.
Under the bill, Navy shipbuilders would be allowed to once again defer paying most federal income taxes on a project until the contract was completed.
The contract was completed in a three-hour meeting early Wednesday morning at the Malibu beach house of Frank McCourt, the Dodgers' owner.
