• Senate Finance Committee Chairman William Roth has said if Clinton fails again, he will push for a stripped-down alternative that would focus on industries in which the U.S. has a competitive edge, including information technology.

    CNN: Analysis: What's Next In Fast-Track Debate

  • Had I waited for the cost of a CT screening to come down, chosen the cheaper X-Ray alternative or just done nothing in the hope that I could save enough money to afford the scan, I would have been dead long before the free market got around to accommodating my personal budgetary issues.

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  • They also gave passengers the right to an alternative screening -- a pat down.

    CNN: TSA removing 'virtual strip search' body scanners

  • In return for the votes of the young, Mr Lagos is offering positive discrimination for the disadvantaged, as an alternative to reliance on trickle-down economics.

    ECONOMIST: Chile

  • From the perspective of Brussels and Berlin, maddening though Athens may be, there is no alternative but to double down on Greece -- because a Greek exit would have huge ripple effects through all the Mediterranean economies (and their banking systems).

    CNN: Opinion: Greeks prefer Europe to its own politicians

  • When it has suited the Saudis to have cheaper oil - notably, when it looked (briefly) as though we might actually get serious about alternative energy sources - they forced prices down.

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  • As a National League expansion franchise whose original core audience was comprised of recently abandoned fans of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, the Mets set out to distinguish themselves as a fun, family-oriented alternative to the corporate, buttoned down Yankees.

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  • The Senate Democrats are also willing, though, Renee, to employ an alternative minimum tax to hold down taxes for middle-class voters.

    NPR: Too Early To Give Up On Bipartisanship?

  • The only alternative to the screeners will be a pat-down from a TSA worker.

    WSJ: Noah Shachtman: Has Airport Security Gone Too Far?

  • "There's always lots of people there, particularly dog walkers - I guess they'll just find an alternative route down, but this does raise safety issues, " he said.

    BBC: Durdle Door

  • Those factors could be weighing down Blackstone and Fortress and could potentially damage the capital-raising plans of other alternative investment firms.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The result of this instability is that people make bad decisions, like selling when the market is down, or speculating on alternative investments that they perceive to be a safe-haven.

    FORBES: How To Maintain Your Sanity Amid A Market Freak-Out

  • It called for the rapid development of new ways to shut down sources of interference, new laws to punish offenders more harshly and for alternative, non-GPS-based backup systems to be deployed.

    ECONOMIST: GPS jamming

  • While that might seem less than instant, it compares favorably with the alternative -- taking the elevator to the seventh floor, finding you car and then driving down endless ramps praying that your alloys don't make contact with the concrete skirts.

    CNN: Valet parking, robot style

  • Others say that if hydro-electricity fails to provide the goods, Laos has no alternative but timber, and the faster chopping down of its forests of hardwood.

    ECONOMIST: Laos

  • The European Commission has proposed two alternative remedies to address the problem of tying: one would force Microsoft to make a stripped-down version of Windows without various add-ons, and the other would require Microsoft to include rival firms' software with Windows.

    ECONOMIST: Microsoft

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