The United States and Japan have entered last-ditch negotiations to renew a semiconductor trade agreement that expires on Wednesday.

The firm's lawyers had been engaged in last-ditch negotiations yesterday with federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

"They're holding last-ditch negotiations in Washington that are going nowhere."

In late 2005, when Delta Air Lines, under bankruptcy protection, and its pilots were warring over wage issues, Ms. Martini spent six days mediating last-ditch negotiations between the sides.

On the opening day of last-ditch negotiations for the strikebound tabloid, Mr. Maxwell said The News was "at death's door."

The last-ditch negotiations came as insurgents unleashed a flurry of bombings, ambushes, mortar attacks and assassinations, mostly in the capital.

However last-ditch negotiations between the partners and with the developer, Grosvenor Estates in June 2006, apparently led to an undisclosed agreement and a withdrawal of the Quiggins' challenge.

Deadline Near in Talks On Japan's Chip Market The United States and Japan have entered last-ditch negotiations to renew a semiconductor trade agreement.

But, notes the paper, there is a new wrinkle too: the State Department has ruled out any last-ditch negotiations.

So when, in last-ditch negotiations, the Tribune Company seemed to change its tactics and offered a somewhat modified management-rights approach, the unions spurned it without much thought.