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Officials with Bridgestone/Firestone, which is based in Nashville, also said yesterday that they were optimistic a settlement could be reached without a strike threatened at 9 of its 11 United States factories.

Weiner, 50, has led the union since December 2009 and presided over the most recent collective bargaining agreement, the third in a row to be reached without a work stoppage.

The bleak outlook throws into question whether a new collective bargaining agreement can be reached without a work stoppage — the league's first in more than two decades — that could threaten at least the start of the 2011 season.

Secrecy is an essential part of any negotiation: no corporate merger, complicated legal settlement, amicable divorce or serious political compromise could ever be reached without a reliable level of confidentiality.

Democrats blamed the Republicans for their unwillingness to yield on a no-new-taxes pact they signed at the request of a conservative antitax group, arguing that the American public realizes that no grand deal could be reached without a combination of spending cuts and new tax revenue.

He noted that if a major arms deal — big enough to supply an army of up to 12,000 FARC members, according to the prosecution — could be reached without a written agreement or other binding details, then "every other guy could sell the Brooklyn Bridge on a handshake".

For decades, successive Israeli governments have persisted in their obstinate policies in the West Bank to the detriment of civilians on both sides, despite knowing full well that no lasting peace deal can ever be reached without an end to the settlement enterprise.

GHI targets on maternal mortality won't be reached without an honest, multi-sector approach to this issue.

Unlike those contracts, the agreement at Ford was reached without a strike, and the union did not even set a deadline for reaching a new deal.

The eventual settlement could have been reached without a single bomb had the western powers been willing at the outset to accept Russian participation in drawing up a practical plan and in its implementation.

The agreement at Ford, unlike those at General Motors and Chrysler, was reached without a walkout or a strike deadline, and one union bargainer gave Mr. Ford, the company's executive chairman, some of the credit.