The outline sought to pull together a growing stream of conflicting proposals from nations involved in the climate treaty talks.
But alongside Mr. Perlman were hundreds of lobbyists from high-tech corporations and the pharmaceutical industry, which often push conflicting proposals.
He has said that one of his top priorities is to sort through several conflicting proposals for overhauling the I.M.F., including a plan put forward by Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers and another by a Congressional commission.
For months, there have been two conflicting proposals: Kroenke's in Inglewood, not far from LAX airport, and the Chargers' and Raiders' plan in Carson, a little farther to the south.
Yet the government has been dithering about whether or not to levy fines on companies that have not filled their training quota.This vacillation, combined with sudden U-turns and a cacophony of conflicting proposals, characterises the government's approach to the reforms.
His remarks, in one of the first interviews he has given since his appointment this month, came amid a welter of conflicting proposals for overhauling the I.M.F., one of the world's important financial institutions, both in the United States Congress and the Clinton administration.
Some Embassy officials have speculated that the Soviet leadership might have faced conflicting proposals from the Foreign Ministry, which knew of the obligations of the con sular convention, and Soviet intelligence agencies, which wanted to carry out their in vestigation before the Army officers met with Embassy officials.
We also compare to apparently conflicting proposals.
Catlin expresses no doubt: "We know what we have here". Dr. Charles Yesalis, a Penn State professor and expert in the field, offers conflicting proposals for combating cheaters.
The Pentagon researchers relate many examples of bureaucratic compromise forged by Presidents from the conflicting proposals of their advisers.
