Owners are hoping that by locking out the players and withholding pay, a critical mass of the rank-and-file will break with the leadership and push for a new deal that includes concessions.

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DiMicco was worried about rank-and-file fallout two years ago when the board decided it was time to break with 40 years of tradition and purchase its first corporate jet.

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'' Instead, she says, taxpayers will have to come up with convincing reasons, in each case, why they deserve a break--for example, a rank-and-file worker was misled by his bosses or by financial advisers about the tax treatment of options.

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