But after a furious backlash from the unions, Mr Prodi's coalition had been keen to reach a compromise plan.
Mosley rejected a compromise plan that would have seen the race go ahead with the addition of a chicane to the Indianapolis track.
Chambliss--who, along with Conrad, is spearheading the proposal--is hoping the Senate will vote on the compromise plan as early as next week.
But our poll found that there is a bipartisan, compromise plan in Washington that Americans overwhelmingly support: the revamped Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan.
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The compromise plan calls for the city to sell 18, 000 permits allowing livery cabs to pick up passengers who hail them from the street.
Micah Kellner, an Upper East Side assemblyman who suffers from cerebral palsy, put forward a compromise plan that in many ways resembles the one announced Tuesday.
To date, very few surveys have examined this issue in any great detail, comparing the actual details of the Democratic, Republican, and compromise plan and gauging American attitudes.
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The effort to formulate a worldwide policy for a more regulated Internet failed in Dubai last year after many Western countries said a compromise plan gave too much power to the United Nations.
Although Democrats appeared to believe that they had enough Republican support to push the compromise plan through, most GOP members still were speaking out against the plan, saying spending is not the answer to cure economic woes.
John Breaux, D-Louisiana, a key player who has his own compromise plan, said he had concerns about the payroll tax holiday because there is no way to guarantee employers would pass the 6.2 percent tax cut onto employees.
That frustration had not subsided by Sunday - and neither was there any change in his no-compromise victory plan.
The U.K. plan is nevertheless an excellent compromise, since an austerity plan based entirely on spending cuts would have had slim odds of adoption.
John Breaux, D-Louisiana, to draft a compromise tax-cut plan that could get votes from both sides of the aisle.
Senate negotiators are trying to come up with a bipartisan compromise to solve the public plan impasse.
We need the two sides to get together and compromise on a long-term plan to right the ship.
Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama's chief of staff, softened the president's previous insistence on such a plan by floating a compromise.
On Wednesday, after President Obama released his budget blueprint, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray announced a plan to negotiate a compromise between their different versions.
Persuading the rival religious and ethnic groups to compromise, and keeping the handover plan on course, would be easier if the UN returned to Iraq to oversee the political transition (they were withdrawn last October after two bomb attacks on the UN headquarters in Baghdad caused heavy casualties).
Senate Majority Whip Don Nickles predicted there would be a compromise combining elements of McCain's plan with ideas put forth by Bush and Sen.
Everyone got to say what they wanted, and we favored different individuals on different days, working at a plan that covered a good compromise of interests.
The staff plan went well beyond the Cairo compromise, he said.
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The way to reach a bipartisan compromise is in bipartisan negotiations, where a plan emerges that is the product of that negotiation and is supported by Republicans and Democrats and then presented.
He has said that he's not wedded to every detail in this plan and that he understands that compromise requires all sides to accept something short of the ideal, and he's committed to doing that.
He said that language was not in the version of the bill that left the Senate and that he was not one of the negotiators who hammered out a compromise between the House and Senate versions of the plan.
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Obama says he willing to compromise on nearly all elements of his own deficit reduction plan, with one exception.
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The compromise reached Wednesday includes an optional government-run insurance plan that allows hospitals and doctors to negotiate reimbursement rates directly, rather than accept low Medicare rates.
But the IRS does offer an installment payment plan and an "offer-in-compromise" program for folks who can show they can't pay all they owe, even over time ( see box).
Obama aides bristled at the suggestion that the FDA decision was an attempt at political compromise, insisting the FDA merely responded to an application filed by Plan B's manufacturer.
He said that plan was something the party needed to do and was not a compromise to appease committee members who wanted him gone.
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