Searching in vain for discontinued parts, he'd lobbed a last-ditch call at the product's manufacturer.
Doubts remain, too, as to whether President Fernando de la Rua's governing coalition has any appetite for Mr Cavallo's last-ditch call for fiscal frugality.
A tear-stained Barack Obama marked his final year in office with a last-ditch call for US gun control on Tuesday as he outlined new rules that will close important background check loopholes but leave much of the political heavy lifting to his successor.
In another room, a clutch of television cameras filmed Herzog, Livni, and part of their Knesset slate making last-ditch calls to Israeli voters.
His struggles became so bad that he tried throwing sidearm in the final month of last season in what he called a "last ditch" effort to contribute to the team.
Over the last couple of months, a motley crew of white supremacists, Latvian lawyers and fertile women have heeded the call, in a last ditch effort to save white culture.
Late yesterday afternoon, the Rangers even postponed a news conference to announce that Messier would have the surgery, because Messier and team officials were engaged in a last-ditch conference call with the developers of an ultrasound treatment that he underwent in Toronto two weeks ago.
In a last ditch effort to save the relationship I called Irene Moore, a friend of mine who was a geriatric social worker, and asked her for advice on what to do with this angry, aggressive, antagonistic Romanian.
In a last ditch effort to save the relationship I called a friend of mine who was a geriatric social worker and asked her for advice on what to do with this angry, aggressive, antagonistic Romanian.
Milton Friedman would call them the "least bad tax," while Karl Marx called George's ideas "capitalist's last ditch" with a hint of friendly contempt.
Still, in a last ditch effort to find a definitive answer, I called up the Wetherspoons where the fight took place.
