In two different footsie-100 plc environments, I had to organise last-minute campaigns or product launches to "get the numbers up" by whatever date was considered critical.

The last-minute campaign to delay the rule seems to show that companies do not like what they see it doing to balance sheets.

Now angry parents have mounted a last-minute campaign to provide another chance for the school that they say has improved their children's difficult lives.

Mr. Eizenstat's announcements were apparently part of a last-minute campaign to make it more economical.

After all, with most of the candidates' last-minute campaign stops lasting at most an hour, it was not a day for absorbing policy speeches.

But he criticized a last-minute campaign that inundated board members with Mailgrams opposing the prohibition.

First of all, Mr. Schundler's primary win was over a last-minute candidate running a last-minute campaign.

Both zoom by the issue of Karla Faye's religious conversion, which was so much a part of the high-profile, last-minute campaign to save her life.

"A last-minute campaign could probably do it for $150,000, but it would compromise our team," Read said.

Such support, however, was not forthcoming, and Columbia bought and built most of its new campus in a series of narrow last-minute campaigns.