'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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On most construction projects, workers are discouraged from signing or otherwise scrawling on the iron and concrete. At the skyscraper rising at ground zero, though, they're being invited to leave messages for the ages.
NBA owners and players were engaged in another marathon session Friday, meeting for more than 15 hours in talks aimed at ending the 148-day lockout in time to save the league's Christmas Day schedule.
NBA owners and players resumed talks Friday aimed at ending the 148-day lockout in time to save the league's Christmas Day schedule.
NBA owners and players met for more than 11 hours Friday in an attempt to end the 148-day lockout in time to save the league's Christmas Day schedule.
NBA owners and players are talking for a third straight day, with Commissioner David Stern vowing they will take "one heck of a shot" at ending the lockout.
NBA owners and players called it an early night Thursday, with both pointing toward Friday as a decisive day for big moves to end the 119-day lockout.
NBA owners and players called it an early night Thursday, with both pointing toward Friday as a decisive day for big moves to end the 119-day lockout.
With one round of cancelations behind them and more significant ones looming without a new labor deal soon, representatives for NBA players and owners will meet Tuesday and perhaps Wednesday for talks aimed at ending the lockout.
NBA owners and players met for about 5 1/2 hours Wednesday, plan to resume negotiations Thursday, and could even sit down again Friday.
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"Everyone here wants to be here, they want to put this building up," Mr. Murphy says. "They're part of the redemption."
"This is not just any construction site, this is a special place for these guys," says Mr. Murphy of the 1,000 men and some women who work in the building at any given time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
