21.   Exasperated by the unpredictability of genuine cork and the amounts of wine it spoils every year, the wine industry has been searching for an acceptable alternative for years.

22.   For all the complaints about the present system, it might be impossible to find a politically acceptable alternative.

23.   For Barkley, getting his groin carved is probably an acceptable alternative to finishing out the season with this bunch.

24.   For those who conduct most of their business and much of their personal correspondence via e-mail, electronic cards are becoming acceptable alternatives to the traditional paper kind.

25.   Going barefoot is not a culturally acceptable alternative in boardrooms or most places outside the beach.

26.   House Republicans were hurriedly drafting an alternative more acceptable to President Bush.

27.   It also said it would not spend its own money to install a more acceptable alternative.

28.   Instead of those moves, Giuliani said he and Bratton had instead arrived at a mutually acceptable alternative.

29.   It has survived because reasonable people recognize that there is no acceptable alternative.

30.   Outside of Washington, though, the public is rising to the surface like hungry trout lunging at anything that remotely looks like an acceptable alternative to Dole.