An assembly government spokesman said its services to assist workers leaving Hoover to find either new skills or suitable alternative employment would come into operation when it knew exactly who would need them.

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Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, Archbishop Emeritis of Ravenna, in north-east Italy, gave the parents an "ethical alternative" to going through with the operation, according to ProLife Alliance.

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Menzies Aviation said its Chicago Airport operation would close after having exhausted all alternative options over the last two years.

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With the prosecution resting on a civil complaint charging Gold and Silver Reserve, Inc. with operating as an unlicensed money-transmitting business, Jackson finally acquiesced in July 2008 and plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering (a victimless crime) and operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business rather than the alternative threat of 20 years in jail and a half million dollar fine.

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Gloucestershire County Council said it had halved its salting operation to preserve stocks as it tries to hunt around for alternative supplies.

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It is the first operation of its kind and doctors are hopeful it could prove to be an alternative to heart transplants.

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