While an accountant at Carnegie Hall in the early 1980s, he grew infuriated at the difficulty of figuring out the city's alternate-side-of-the-street parking rules.

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Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told CNN's "Late Edition" that she already has an alternate anti-tobacco bill in the works.

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Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies re-casts the original novel in an alternate version of Regency England populated by hordes of undead.

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"It's like an alternate reality, " Antoine-Gambeaud said.

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And so it's creating this whole alternate way of having the one-drop rule because now people want to be classified as black.

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Some alternate-history novels have envisioned a separate Texas, notably 1990's "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, which explores what might have happened to the world had computers been perfected in Britain a century earlier.

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Programs he has gone after in the past include agricultural subsidies, defense programs such as C-17 military transport planes, and an alternate engine for the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter.

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Israel's Netanyahu will seek alternate sleeping arrangements when traveling after receiving a sky-high bill for installing a customized bed on a recent flight to London, officials close to the prime minister said.

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The Post reported that a malfunction in Mir's attitude-control system also occurred in March, causing it to list until an alternate back-up system was activated.

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