Failing to make these changes "will put us on track to alternative futures with severe and potentially catastrophic implications for human well-being".

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The report presents two alternative futures for the wolves, one with a small number of wolves in three isolated areas and one with wolves tolerated on all public lands that can support them.

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One of the most celebrated cases is that of Igor Sutyagin, a former researcher at the Institute of the U.S.A. and Canada who was sentenced to 15 years in a labor camp for giving supposedly secret information to Alternative Futures, an English consulting firm.

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Options on futures are an alternative to buying a futures contract outright.

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Mr Swinney said information on the alternative "Scottish Futures Trust" was "imminent".

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Managed futures-a very popular alternative asset class.

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An alternative would be to establish a position in one platinum contract with an offset in a miNY gold futures contract that also is 50 ounces.

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