But unless the N.F.L. club owners agree on one realignment plan by June 1, Commissioner Paul Tagliabue will put, say, five divisional plans on five slips of paper, drop them into a bowl, then have somebody reach in and pull out the 2002 plan that, like it or not, will be implemented.
Managed realignment is one of several 'soft' engineering options which may reduce the costs of coastal defence, provide a more 'natural' response to the problem of rising sea levels and at the same time deliver environmental, specifically nature conservation, benefits.
Rather, Britain could have an early election, and maybe even a partisan realignment, with one party pledged to keep Britain in the EU but to modernize the EU to better serve regular Brits, and the other party standing for narrow nationalism.
In such cases, for each repeat in the pair, a realignment of one repeat with the appropriate HMM was attempted using the concatenated flanking sequences of the other repeat, effectively excluding the sequence of the other element.
But under one realignment plan that baseball owners may vote on as early as April 18, the Mets and Braves would no longer share the same address during the regular season, starting in 2001.
The realignment vote concluded one of the best weeks Tagliabue has had as commissioner.
Both came up short rather quickly: Mr. Carter's declaration of a post-Watergate realignment ended with one term and the loss of the Senate in 1980, while Mr. Clinton's party lost Congress after two years and watched Republicans reclaim the White House in 2000.
"A company-wide realignment, like the one we announced, is always painful, and especially so for a close-knit team like ours," CEO Matt Salzberg said in a note to employees.
Realignments like this one happen every so often in American politics; give it a few decades, and there's likely to be a new one.
