It didn't work Thursday, but their last-ditch drive nearly did.
But their last-ditch drive stalled early, and on fourth-and-2, Griffin tried to squeeze a short pass into a receiver on a screen, and Kansas State batted down the ball.
With the Senate likely to approve landmark restrictions on political fund-raising and with Congress up for grabs, Republicans and Democrats are mounting an aggressive, last-ditch drive to collect unrestricted checks from wealthy donors before such donations are banned.
But there also was the low snap Sanchez could not handle for his fifth turnover, a fumble at the start of a last-ditch drive in a 14-10 loss at Tennessee on Dec. 17 that extinguished the Jets' playoff hopes, among other foibles.
The first indication of a softening of the hard lines that have marked weeks of partisan wrangling over the debt limit came in the afternoon when the two leading Congressional Republicans announced that they had reopened fiscal talks with the White House and expected their last-ditch drive to produce a compromise.
Rafael Gaglianone kicked a 47-yard field goal with 3.47 left, and Wisconsin staved off No5 LSU's desperate last-ditch drive for a 16-14 win on Saturday in a game that dealt an early blow to the fifth-ranked Tigers' national title hopes.
A11 NATIONAL A12-19 With New Limits Looming, Parties Push for Donations With the Senate likely to approve landmark restrictions on political fund-raising, and with Congress up for grabs, Republicans and Democrats are mounting a last-ditch drive to collect unrestricted checks from wealthy donors before such donations are banned.
Rafael Gaglianone kicked a 47-yard field goal with 3 47 left, and Wisconsin staved off LSU's desperate last-ditch drive for a 16-14 win on Saturday in Green Bay, Wis., in a game that dealt an early blow to the fifth-ranked Tigers' national title hopes. .
BRUSSELS, June 28 (Reuters) - EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker launched a last-ditch drive on Sunday to persuade Greece to agree a funding deal to save it from bankruptcy this week as Brussels insisted the "door is still open" for negotiations.
Enough is enough.'" Nevertheless, a last-ditch fundraising drive was organised; a predictably ramshackle affair that saw Kirk rattling a Tupperware box under the nostrils of bewildered passers-by.
For me, it's more masculine to dig ditches or drive a tow truck.' A friend of such American originals as Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton and Nick Nolte, Madsen is cut from a classic mould - a straight-shooting, blue-collar individualist, with a passion for classic cars, Harleys, unfiltered cigarettes and guns.
