This is not like going to the union bargaining table to reach an agreement by trading last minute proposals.
University rectors objected to his last-minute proposal to include secretaries, laboratory technicians and computer support staff.
Mr. Appignani said he rejected a last-minute proposal from a dean to call it a chair in "philosophical naturalism".
He did not press legislators, even from his own party, to embrace his excellent but last-minute proposal for a campaign-finance fix.
But Democratic leaders who attended the meeting quickly seized on the Republican request concerning the surplus, saying they were puzzled by the last-minute proposal.
The US arrived in Geneva with a last-minute proposal without prior consultation with its allies, and the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, was instructed to oppose it.
There was a last-minute proposal by Signor Mussolini for a five-Power conference "for the purpose of revising the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles which are the actual cause of the trouble in the European situation".
And while the vast majority of the proposals were sponsored by Republicans, who have a majority in both houses, Senator Bernard Kenny Jr., a Democrat, still managed to push for a last-minute proposal to lower taxes on corporations.
Swaziland has submitted a highly controversial last-minute proposal to be allowed to sell its stockpile of around 330kg of valuable southern white rhino horn and some 20kg annually from animals that died naturally.
As for the future of refugees -- for many Palestinians, the heart of the matter -- the ideas put forward at Camp David spoke vaguely of a "satisfactory solution," leading Mr. Arafat to fear that he would be asked to swallow an unacceptable last-minute proposal.
In a last-minute proposal to settle a dispute over spying on terror suspects, city officials said in federal court yesterday that the police would promise to adopt new guidelines to protect civil liberties if the court lifted a 20-year-old order that limits police surveillance and undercover operations.
