Editorial employees of The Chicago Sun-Times have voted overwhelmingly to accept a three-year contract, ending a six-month dispute with the management of the city's second-largest newspaper.

The last abbreviated NBA season was in 1998-99 when a six-month dispute reduced the campaign by 32 games to 50 and forced the cancellation of the All-Star Game.

Timex closed its Dundee plant in 1993 following an acrimonious six-month industrial dispute.

Governor Christopher Patten, the focus of the bitter six-month dispute between Beijing and London, said today that he might postpone introduction of his pro-democracy legislation if the talks lead to some agreement.

The six-month dispute has become a case study of the difficulties that unions face in hard times.

After a six-month dispute, Britain's two biggest mobile phone companies agreed to share control of Airtel Movil S.A., the second-largest Spanish mobile phone company.

The woman who resigned as director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art last month after a six-month dispute over her decision to cancel an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs has been named director of the Norton Gallery and School of Arts in Palm Beach, Fla.

The occupation of the Neuengamme camp was prompted by a six-month dispute over the threatened expulsion of several families and a proposal by the city to set criteria for allowing gypsies to stay, including residence of at least four years, no criminal record and at least partial social integration.

If completed, the agreement would end a six-month dispute between a creditor group led by the financier Leon Black and one led by the Bronfman family of Toronto.