1.   The job of chairman can no longer be regarded as a convenient soft option.

2.   Also the phone has several convenient options for entering text, such as a small virtual keyboard that allows the user to type with the tip of a stylus.

3.   A browser lists all the photographs and video clips, which is a convenient option, given the extensive use of both.

4.   But for passengers wanting to travel from, say, Boston to Los Angeles, there are much more convenient options.

5.   But the Arabs, Uzbek and Chechen militants who joined al-Qaida forces in Afghanistan and fought alongside the Taliban do not have such convenient options.

6.   Having the caller ID screen in the handset may be the most convenient option.

7.   What trivializes the balanced budget proposal most egregiously is the provision allowing for the Constitution to be violated if Congress decides violation is a politically convenient option.