"Wind is arguably the best alternative energy option right now in the United States, " says Culver.
"In certain cases dam removal is the best alternative from an economic standpoint as well, " said Johnson.
Of the ideas put to him, accelerating the tax reforms looks the best alternative to doing nothing.
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The best alternative to the neo-Gaullist politics of President Jacques Chirac, he argues, is not a more moderate but a harder left.
Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson believes the Scottish Premier League will stick with 12 teams because nobody can agree on the best alternative.
But most experts don't see that strategy as the best alternative in a high-tech world that has more reality-TV-loving consumers demanding an interactive process.
On Monday, Mr. Swan advocated a different approach whereby a referendum on the monarchy itself would follow a vote to decide the best alternative republican model.
Even when a good plan is possible, I believe there are many circumstances where the ready-fire-aim approach is the best alternative, even though it may be counter-intuitive that one can fire without having aimed precisely.
Rather than provide rational arguments to defend their view that Hamas's takeover of Gaza is an opportunity for peace, proponents of peace fantasies as strategic wisdom explain vacuously that peace is the best alternative to jihad.
Employees are given "decision rights" according to their demonstrated ability to make choices that result in lower costs or returns that exceed the company's "opportunity cost, " which Koch defines as the returns from investing in the best alternative.
While Mr. Obama may choose to make the cuts ordered by the sequester in the most painful way possible, the best alternative which is practiced every year to some extent is allowing federal agencies to transfer funds among individual programs with congressional approval or by rearranging priorities as part of the March 27 resolution to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year.
As the next best alternative, use an organization like the National Association of Sports Commissions as a resource.
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In the absence of previous administrations heeding his advice and not perpetuating debt, the next best alternative is doing everything we can to reduce the debt, at least to a reasonable level.
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Alas, the next best alternative is also rife with problems of cost, liability, and politics.
It was a revolutionary way of outsourcing graphic design work and, quite literally, dozens of times better than the next best alternative.
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In the category of Best Alternative Song, three contenders are equally deserving of the award.
The second-best alternative is to use a commercial hosting service like Box.net or Dropbox.
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George Papandreou, the foreign minister and son of Pasok's populist founder, the late Andreas Papandreou, would be the best-qualified alternative.
More recently, Fountains of Wayne's "I Want an Alien for Christmas" and Saint Etienne and Tim Burgess' "I was born on Christmas Day" (Saint Etienne being seasonal serial offenders having also covered Billy Fury's "My Christmas Prayer") are perhaps the best options for alternative ears.
It went on to sell 1.2 million units in the United States and won the 1999 Grammy for best alternative album.
Sometimes we wonder, what would we have ended up doing if we didn't spend our time trawling the web for the week's best alternative tech stories?
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Nottingham is named as the best destination for students in the Virgin 2003 Alternative Guide to British Universities - beating 2001 winner Sheffield into third place, and Leeds into second.
The negotiating term BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement) is relevant here.
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After forming in 1987, the veteran punk band broke through in 1994 with the release of "Dookie, " which sold 15 million and earned the band a Grammy for best alternative music performance.
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The album won a Grammy for best alternative album after its 1997 release, and often tops best ever album opinion polls.
ICANN, its best defence is that the main alternative handing over the internet's critical infrastructure to an intergovernmental cacophony would surely be worse.
And I have instructed the Department of Energy to make sure that our federal operations are employing the best possible clean energy technology, alternative energy technology.
Harvey Stenger, president of Binghamton University, then plans to recruit faculty to sharpen the school's expertise in pharmaceutical sciences and alternative energy, which he argues has the best chance to succeed as new, local industries.
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