The officials said the list of palatable options would be short.

It offered a far more palatable option to the steel mills of Canton, Ohio.

It now appears up to the Yankees to determine whether Johnson's staying at home is the more palatable option for both sides.

The government has four options, none palatable, to curb the deficit.

That was never a palatable option for the General.

But appeasement is also not a palatable option.

Giving up flying and radically changing diets would achieve the most - and are probably the least palatable options.

There are few other politically palatable options for financing military modernization.

The dollar's weakness is worrying the Clinton Administration, which seems to be running out of palatable options.

Excise taxes have emerged as the only politically palatable option to raise revenue and meet the budget target, Congressional tax writers say.