"We've just got more players than anyone else who can tell you about the health plan and the basic agreement."

After a short while, when more specific details were worked out, a basic agreement was reached.

And, oh, yes, they had with them the bridge to a new basic agreement as well.

Such a trade could also bring a challenge to the basic agreement between players and owners.

By January 1739 they had drawn up a basic agreement.

"We're taking the appropriate course as the basic agreement provides."

"It happens after every basic agreement," said one lawyer who is close to various players.

But there must of course be a basic agreement in principle between the parties themselves.

To her surprise, it didn't take long to establish a basic agreement.

One aide said that "there was basic agreement in the main" on most issues.