1.  Early on Tuesday morning he presented all the parties with his synthesis of their arguments, noting commonalities and reducing to clear options the areas of continuing disagreement.

2.  The new study went one step further by examining a relatively straightforward medical circumstance in which surgery is the clear option of choice.

3.  It seems clear options one and four are there for show.

4.  Yet with Bosnian Serbs continuing to defy the West, NATO plans for an evacuation of peacekeepers remained a clear option.