Word: fallbacks
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...been chipping away at the conservatives since he took power 4 1/2 years ago, and now sometimes gives the impression that he is willing to destroy the party in order to save it. By creating a new legislature and making himself head of state, he has built a fallback power center from which he can bombard the party's hard-liners and, if necessary, defend against their counterattacks...
...running, and Baker never hesitated to dance with the man who brung him. Moreover, he ensured Bush's selection as Reagan's Vice President, which wasn't easy. "What I'll admit to, but George never will," said Baker in 1981, "is that the Veep thing was always the fallback. It was always in my mind. That's why, at every opportunity, I had him cool his rhetoric about Reagan...
...normally shuns publicity, but if gangsters cannot stay out of the spotlight, it seems they have a fallback position: they want a piece of the profitable action that others may generate from their crimes. The FBI has learned that East Coast racketeers are demanding a cut of the earnings from a proposed film about the life of Meyer Lansky, the Mafia's legendary financial genius who died...
...SHOP THEREFORE I AM). But no one could accuse it of the air-headedness that marked its immediate predecessor. This is a tighter, more conservative Biennial, attentive to the internal rhymes of current art and to the cross relations between artists. What we have is an Alexandrian fallback -- a sense of the basically academic nature of most "advanced" American art, its recoil from making big parodies of invention, its desire to navigate honorably in a cultural trough whose sides are lined with art fans...
There are, of course, fallback justifications touted for having the concentration at Harvard. Proponents argue that six other Ivy League institutions have Women's Studies programs. But many more institutions have undergraduate programs in business and occupational therapy. Does that mean Harvard should follow suit? How many other schools have a Core Curriculum? Does that mean Harvard should disband its own core...