Instead, the Beverly Hills-based company headed by Jan Czuker apparently was making other phone calls as it lined up support for its request for an exemption.
Clinton has already lined up support from some of the industry's most prominent leaders, including Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg and "Girls" creator Lena Dunham.
For much of last year, legislators argued over the rules as developers and planning advocates lined up support on each side.
The Clinton administration, after Congress slashed funds for the project, lined up support from several foreign governments.
Mr. Obama has lined up support from unions representing plumbers and pipefitters, as well as hospitality and garment workers.
But although the administration quietly lined up support from a few council members before introducing the proposal, the speaker, Gifford Miller, has yet to sign on.
To counter any notion of racial insensitivity on Mr. Ashcroft's part, Republicans handling the confirmation campaign have lined up support from blacks.
Janis has lined up support from Virginia's top Republicans, including Cantor, Cuccinelli, Bolling, Howell (Stafford), legislators — some on the ballot in November — and prominent GOP activists.
Although Mr. del Rivero owns 13 percent of Sacyr, the company's other leading shareholders, Demetrio Carceller and Juan Abelló, lined up support to get rid of him.
Once Mr Wall had lined up support from four other provincial leaders, all three opposition parties in the national legislature, and a few dissident executives, the government buckled.
While he worked the phones and lined up support -- he said today that among his calls was one to Christie Whitman, whose resignation as administrator made way for his nomination -- the Senate was in recess.
