They do not, however, provide a full range of alternatives (like the morning-after pill) or condone all choices.
General Motors' advanced propulsion strategy is to develop a full range of alternatives to gasoline, including hybrids, ethanol, hydrogen and its Chevrolet Volt plug-in electric car.
Should the two sides reach a stalemate on March 3, the owners are "certainly prepared for the full range of alternatives," Pash said.
A choice is not free when the two paths – "medicalised" and "natural" – are so starkly divided: it's irrational that the full range of alternatives, from birthing pools to anaesthesia, are not available in the same room.
But when it issued an advisory opinion last month, the commission put off any final decision until later this year, and its members have a full range of alternatives before them.
They are as opinionated as we are, but they discipline themselves not to commit themselves to a recommendation until they have fully defined the question and used the process of obtaining consensus to bring out the full range of alternatives.
The newest smartphone is the first step in a major expansion of the Lumia line announced last week to create a full range of alternatives to iOS and Android phones.
And the EIA process often occurs too late in agency decision-making to consider a full range of alternatives: Alternatives are foreclosed because the EIA typically starts after an agency has already proposed, and become attached to, a particular project.
But the rapid recovery in the property market – especially in London, where price increases have averaged 18% over the last year – has forced a rethink, with Osborne convinced that the Bank should have a full range of alternatives to higher interest rates as a way of cooling down the housing market.
