Australia is also pursuing its plan to introduce a counterproposal to IWC, which Garrett says has the support of "allies, particularly in South America and some countries in Europe".
This is what they are seeking from the Bush administration, which has been hearing from scientists, economists and industries as it ponders a counterproposal to the Kyoto agreement.
Commissioner Gary Bettman called it a "counterproposal" to the offer the players presented to the league earlier this month.
There was no apparent progress Saturday, although the Nuggets made a counterproposal to the Knicks.
Mr Lamfalussy is, he concedes, a federalist but a pragmatic one.His group was not asked to come up with a counterproposal to the commission's FSAP.
The competition committee member Jason Spezza said Monday in Montreal that the N.H.L. Players Associationn was looking to make a counterproposal to the rule drafted by general managers earlier this month.
In "A Requiem for Reform" (column, March 15), David Brooks criticizes the Democrats' refusal to offer a counterproposal to President Bush's plan to partly privatize Social Security.
Disney was expected to deliver a counterproposal to Pixar before Mr. Jobs left for the Apple Expo in Paris on Sept. 16, people close to the talks said.
The company, based in Perth, bought 19.9percentt of Australian Gas last month, prompting a counterproposal to buy Alinta for 2.72 billion Australian dollars ($1.97 billion).
In Pennsylvania, Gov. Edward G. Rendell's plan to lease the state's turnpike has been delayed by a counterproposal to collect tolls on Interstate 80.
