51.   In February, the thrift said it was considering alternatives for the company, including a sale.

52.   Is your current employer willing to consider alternatives to the offer you just received?

53.   It also frees your mind to consider alternatives to the same old job.

54.   It considered several alternatives before deciding to look near the Yale School of Medicine, which Sullivan can now see from his seventh-floor office window.

55.   It is because of McCarthy that the four old schoolmates, soured by life, have reason to consider the alternative.

56.   Last fall Allied Signal, which is based in Morristown, N.J., said it was considering alternatives for the brake businesses it sold Thursday.

57.   Li said the Chinese government would consider other alternatives for removing the plane, such as putting it on a ship.

58.   Lott and other Senate Republican leaders had considered a alternative, a bill to require the president to seek congressional approval before deploying ground troops.

59.   Many communities are pressing the Army to consider alternatives to incineration that they contend are safer and less expensive.

60.   Miller said Fish and Game officials refused to consider alternatives to the poisoning, such as electrocuting or netting the pike.