In the meantime, he said, "we have to figure out separate funding for our short-term needs, in addition to exploring long-term alternatives."

Westchester will develop a long-term permanent alternative by Sept. 15, 1995 for the 513,640 tons of waste it dumps.

Limited and responsible ecotourism is also seen as a long-term alternative to continued deforestation.

The best guess is that their only long-term alternatives to liquidation or mergers with other domestic carriers will be sales to foreigners.

The long-term alternative for too many major league baseball teams is to pack up, disband and volunteer to go into a dispersal draft.

Since signing the consent decree, the county has spent more than $2 million developing a long-term alternative to dumping in the ocean.

Some economists say that farm subsidies blur the fuel's real cost, making it a less than perfect long-term alternative in thinking about the world after oil.

The program buoyed the provincial economy, and would have made a fine launching pad for long-term alternatives to poppy.

Increasing the productivity of renewables is the only long-term alternative to traditional energy sources.

At least three earlier long-term alternatives, all of which involved shipping trash to New Jersey, fell through because of opposition from state and local leaders.