Word: fallbacks
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Amid the mounting gloom, Newt Gingrich remains stymied. The man who energized House Republicans has been in his own private funk since January, after Clinton refused to do a balanced-budget deal on G.O.P. terms and Gingrich had no fallback plan ready. When Gingrich inches into the spotlight lately, it's under the cover of lovable critters. To mark Earth Day last Monday he appeared at the Atlanta zoo with an African elephant. He ended the week on the Tonight Show, cradling a piglet. If it's all a bit Marlin Perkins, esteemed gray eminence of Wild Kingdom...
...expect them to; the best that adult authority can do is to distribute condoms to the beasts and hope they will pause long enough to slip one on before their urgencies of crotch propel them into the hedge. If they do not take the precaution, well, then, the fallback: a morning's visit to the abortionist. Melancholy, perhaps, but--um--c'est la vie. The condom-slinger's mentality takes a ruthlessly unennobled view of human nature. The young tend to fulfill expectations. Government-sponsored condom distribution announces that the society officially expects to get copulating dogs...
...almost $150 billion between the Clinton and House G.O.P. proposals for cutting Medicare, it may lie partly in a retreat by Republicans from their tax-cut pledge. By saving billions of dollars, a smaller tax cut would allow the Medicare cuts to be somewhat smaller. But that is a fallback position, many weeks away. Until then, many threats will be made and bluffs will be called. And Americans will come to realize that the breaking up of gridlock is not a quiet process...
...Dobrynin insists, though some days it must have been difficult. During the Cuban missile crisis, Moscow told him "absolutely nothing at all" of plans to place the missiles, then made him "an involuntary tool of deceit" by maintaining that they were defensive only. Khrushchev's lack of a fallback plan once the missiles were discovered was a lesson, Dobrynin notes, that was forgotten by his successors when they invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Ignoring warnings from his generals and ambassador, Brezhnev told Dobrynin not to worry: "It'll be over in three to four weeks...
...felt in light of the recent baseball strike that Hank Aaron was a fallback to a time when our national pastime was more devoted to playing and the beauty of the game," Miller says...