11.   But there is a different course of action, which offers a realistic alternative to chaos.

12.   Cotton knitting yarns now spring back well so that garments retain their shape, making late-summer knitwear a realistic alternative.

13.   For the banks, however, the agreement was their only realistic alternative.

14.   Most understand that, distasteful as it may be, they have no realistic alternative to an eventual return to the negotiating table.

15.   New Yorkers also know what it means to have no realistic alternative to mass transit.

16.   Only if Californians are persuaded that it is the only realistic alternative.

17.   Other than to accept jungle law, United Nations withdrawal is not a realistic alternative.

18.   Recently, however, a new danger has emerged for campaign reform in the guise of a Senate bill that poses as a more realistic alternative.

19.   Some shareholder groups say the survey looked at separate and wide-ranging revisions -- including turning regulation over to the states -- despite previous progress on more realistic alternatives.

20.   The agreement, which essentially bent the rules for large borrowers near default, was the only realistic alternative for these banks.