A: "My job isn't to get the sides together. My job is to understand why the league wants an 18 percent pay cut from the players. We said from the beginning that if team profits have been declining over the last five years, if any team is losing money, if half the teams have lost money, if half the teams are only making a dollar, the players are committed to a new collective bargaining agreement.20040729 04:00:00 PDT Baghdad On a day that saw the worst violence since sovereignty was turned over to an interim Iraqi government last month, the death toll rose to 68 in a suicide bombing outside a police station, while heavy fighting elsewhere claimed 44 more lives. At least one American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad. The carnage, exactly a month after the interim government assumed power, highlighted the lack of security that remains Iraqis' greatest worry..

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