Word: fallbacks
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...plan includes fallback zoning regulations—so called “base” zoning—to be followed only if either Harvard or the city does not live up to its end of the bargain...
...later, we received the results. I was, the testing company advised, ideally suited to a career in mime. And if miming didn’t work out, “puppeteer” and “grocery bagger,” the company noted, would both be acceptable fallback positions...
...group was originally intended as a bridge for its members to someday break into Harvard’s established a cappella groups. It hasn’t been smooth sailing for these rookies, though. The Independent, for example, dismissed the Fallbacks as merely for “students who are interested in music and didn’t quite fit into the established a cappella scene.” As group member Gavitt A. Woodard ’06 says, this made them seem like a “bunch of incompetents clapping in time...
TODAY'S SUPERSTAR More than 4,000 audition tapes submitted to NBC's Today will be winnowed to six finalists this week. The winner gets a concert appearance on the show and a recording session. Too much of a stretch: try a fallback, like news and cooking segments...
Nevertheless, almost everyone outside the most committed hard-liner thinks inspections should be given one last chance. Bowing to that reality, the Administration's fallback is to demand that the U.N. prescribe a new regime for unfettered inspections that is so in Iraq's face that it might work. And if it doesn't, as the Administration frankly would prefer, it would give the U.S. a legitimate pretext for war. In its view, either inspectors would find something that would trigger action, or they would be blocked by Saddam: either would be cause for green-lighting the bombers...