Word: fallback
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...which it has taken three months from election day to seat a partial cabinet is not an encouraging indicator of the prospects for the National Assembly to complete its primary function, drafting a permanent constitution for Iraq, by the August 15 deadline - or even, for that matter, by the fallback date next February...
...figment of the Bush administration’s imagination, the purpose of the enterprise was switched to the pursuit of “freedom.” While normally among the noblest of aims, that glorious ideal has here been turned into little more than a fallback plan for the occupation’s public relations division. This gives us good reason to doubt the sincerity of our government’s commitment to Iraqi freedom...
With a Yale degree, the fallback options are numerous...
...choosing his words to allow administration sound-bite authors to imply that WMD evidence was imminent. Kay did, of course, do his former employers the service of trying to pin the blame for going to war under false pretenses onto the CIA. That seems to be the White House fallback position, too, although Press Secretary Scott McClellan gamely suggests that Kay's conclusion may be "premature" - in other words, don't expect us to confirm the obvious until after November...
...noodles, but has recently expanded its choices to include Japanese mainstays from edamame ($2.49) to Donburi (rice bowls $5.99-8.49). Be prepared, as in all Porter Exchange restaurants, to drink your miso from the bowl. The food at Ittyo is unoffensive but unremarkable—come here as a fallback if the busier Mami is too full...