The N.B.A. plans to soon send the union a revised proposal for a new collective bargaining agreement, hoping it will prompt meaningful negotiations ahead of the June 30 expiration date.
While Manfred did not completely spell out management's problems with the union's revised position, he said: "It was important to us that we have a program for steroid testing throughout this next agreement.
The European Union would revise or withdraw that law only if a global system were put in place to curb emissions from aviation, said Isaac Valero-Ladrón Valero-Ladrónfor the European CommispokesmanBrussels.
President Bush asked the union to revise a draft directive on data protection for telecommunications, to be voted on in the European Parliament on Tuesday, "to permit the retention of critical data for a reasonable period," he said in a letter written by James J. Foster, the deputy chief of the United States mission to the union.
The European Union is revising its current seven-year budget, which runs until 2020.
According to league and union officials, the revised offer on the table includes the following improvements: The midlevel exception for tax-paying teams would be worth $3 million, with a maximum three-year contract, and could be used annually.
The bankruptcies at G.M. and Chrysler slashed debt, jobs and labor costs, and revised union contracts have brought manufacturing expenses more in line with factories in this country operated by Toyota and other foreign automakers.
Last year, 51 percent of cities froze or reduced pay, according to the National League of Cities, while 25 percent laid off workers, 24 percent reduced health benefits and 22 percent revised union contracts to reduce pay and benefits.
Players agreed to proceed with talks after the union submitted a revised proposal to baseball this week, and, the person said, the sides were "not that far apart" on the main issue of the team's payroll next season.
In a 2010 survey by the National League of Cities, 51 percent of the cities that responded said they had either cut or frozen salaries of city employees, 22 percent said they had revised union contracts to reduce some pay and benefits, and 19 percent said they had instituted furloughs.
