Instead, it wants to grant concession-like contracts for risky ventures such as deepwater drilling and shale-gas development.
The government wants to grant concessions to industry to build 49 thermoelectric plants.
In fact, even the pilots' leaders were said to be split on whether to grant concessions.
Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University, as employers turn to lockouts to press their unionized workers to grant concessions after contract negotiations deadlock.
The colonial peoples, therefore, now felt justified in demanding a new relationship with France, and French leaders recognized the need to grant concessions.
Volker Kauder, head of the Christian Democrats in Parliament, said repeatedly this week that lawmakers were in no mood to grant concessions to Athens.
Robert W. Mann, an industry consultant based in Port Washington, N.Y., agreed that United needed to be more forthcoming, particularly because it has asked employees, suppliers and others to grant concessions.
Mr. Suozzi says he still hopes to avoid layoffs but is prepared to impose them if the unions fail to grant concessions.
[Page C3.] United Airlines reached tentative agreements with flight attendants and dispatchers on new six-year contracts that would grant concessions sought by the bankrupt airline.
The Spanish prime minister, José María Aznar, has adopted a hard line against E.T.A. with police crackdowns on the group's allies, while refusing to grant concessions.
Since then, he has been linked to Mr. Carty in numerous news releases, particularly those demanding that American's unions grant concessions to help the airline avoid bankruptcy.
