Antacids make more sense for discretionary use and rare episodes of heartburn.

But that statutory language was not meant to bar sampling for reapportionment, merely to make its use discretionary.

If residential customers paid less for electricity at night, they might tend to reschedule discretionary use, reducing the chance of blackouts.

This discretionary use of power was the foundation of equity.

The Fund has also provided over $43 million of additional support directly to its member states for their discretionary uses.

Most economists favor the use of automatic stabilization over active or discretionary use of deficits to fight mild recessions (or surpluses to combat inflation).

France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) to be held at ready for the discretionary use of the United Nations.

Participants were also given two packets of salt, each containing 200 mg of sodium, for discretionary use.

"We really have very little discretionary use of water in a refinery," said Mr. Avery of ARCO.

Businesses linked to such discretionary uses, like landscapers and swimming-pool builders, are among those hurt most by the drought.