Word: fallback
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...most costly incompletion for the Crimson cam early in the second quator, when fallback Mark Vignali, near the right side on at the Cornell 15 with daylight ahead bobbled and dropped Colombo's pass...
Harvard's next drive ended in a fumble, by fallback Mike Granger and Allard closed out be Crimson's other two possession of the first quarter throwing interceptions...
...retain a "minimum'' of 1½ divisions on the east bank of the Canal. He rejected the stringent restrictions on weapons that Israel had proposed. In Israel, when I presented this plan and argued that I could not go back to Sadat with the Dayan plan but needed a fallback position, the Cabinet showed considerable ingenuity. It simply turned the Dayan plan into the fallback position, giving me an even tougher new position with which to open the bidding. Yet there was, despite the harsh terms, a sense that this was not Israel's last word but a show of bravado...
...Soviet Union's outright, not to say contemptuous, rejection of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 proposal for deep cuts in strategic arms, the Administration is determined to avoid what it considers to have been Carter's principal error. Unlike his predecessor, Reagan will not announce a fallback position in advance. Still, the President said in his speech that the U.S. delegation would "listen to and consider the proposals of our Soviet counterparts." Arriving at Geneva airport last week, Nitze declared: "I'm going to be reasonable-and tough...
Unlike Reagan, Carter also declared that the U.S. had a fallback position: he remained willing to negotiate SALT II along the lines set out previously by Gerald Ford. Reagan's advisers feel that Carter abandoned his radical initiative too early and undercut himself by having a fallback position already stated. "There is a strong feeling here that we should have stuck to our guns in 1977," says one State policymaker. Thus the Administration refuses to talk about any other options or compromise positions. The instructions that have been given to Paul Nitze, the veteran negotiator who heads...