As for monthly salaries, there was an increase of $100, also a part of the six-year agreement.

Under the players' plan for a six-year agreement, salaries would be taxed 2.5 percent in each of the first three years.

If the six-year agreement is signed, it will end more than a year of turbulent negotiations.

As part of the settlement, the term was shelved by a six-year non-use agreement.

The other was for a primary school, which had signed a six-year agreement for its photocopiers.

The owners' previous proposal called for a tax in the last four years of a six-year agreement.

The players' last stated position had a tax being imposed only in the middle two years of a six-year agreement.

Once the strike started, the owners wanted a six-year agreement.

The players proposed age 32 for the first year of the six-year agreement and 31 for the remainder.

The Bengals also have an option in his contract after the 2010 season to make it a six-year, $42 million dollar agreement.