Twice this year he has seemed to be near agreement and now twice the prospect has receded.Google's first set of proposals, which involved among other things displaying links to rivals' sites, was published in April.
Mr. Mastro's proposal, which involves offering parents a third choice, might require amendments to both the law and the court order.
So it would be necessary to amend that section as well – perhaps by the introduction of Lord Wakeham's almost forgotten proposal (which involved excluding the application of section 6 in disputes between two private parties).
Yukio Edano of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has a more dramatic proposal which involves temporarily nationalising weak banks, splitting them into "good banks" and "bad banks", and then selling the good bits.
The two buyout firms will eventually win a controlling 34 percent stake in Billabong as a result of their financing proposal, which involves a combined 571 million Australian dollars, or $542 million, in debt and equity financing.
Collaboration was also crucial to Mr. Fung's Site proposal, which involved asking curators at other nonprofit arts organizations across the globe, from the Power Plant in Toronto to Ssamzie Space in Seoul, to nominate a handful of emerging artists, from which he made his choices.
He will also tell older Americans that Mr. Gore's proposal, which involves more federal regulation, smacks of nationalized health care and represents a bid for "the government to be their pharmacist," said Karen P. Hughes, director of communications for the Bush campaign.
Mr Clarke had earlier told the Commons that the proposals - which involve absorbing GCSEs and A-levels into a new diploma awarded at four different levels - would represent "the biggest reform of qualifications in any of our lifetimes".
Four other proposals, all of which involve what Lord Robertson called radical changes in NATO relations with Russia, are also under discussion, he said.
With complex proposals like these - which involve wide-ranging plans from tramline extensions, fast-transit bus routes, new bus "quality contracts", cycle provisions, school buses and much more, not to mention a peak-time, "cordon-model" congestion charge – there's a lot to debate and many questions to be asked.
