Fall Back

The White House and Republicans are scrambling to reach a deficit-reduction deal soon so they don't have to use the McConnell plan, which members in both parties have described as a fall-back option that would only be used to avoid default. ❋ Damian Paletta (2011)

Gordon took an opposite tack in his report, saying that while America needs to make cutting greenhouse gas emissions its top priority when addressing global warming, it can simultaneously start researching a fall-back plan without creating a massive new bureaucracy. ❋ Juliet Eilperin (2010)

Nowitzki, who has played 13 seasons and guided Dallas to 11 straight playoff appearances, was named series MVP, and his patented fall-back, one-legged jumper will join Michael Jordan's leap and Magic Johnson's jump hook as an indelible championship visual. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)

"But what's the fall-back position if state revenues drop?" he asked. ❋ Stephanie Simon (2011)

QB Josh McCown appears to be Carolina's fall-back option if they can't find another veteran after the draft. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you haven't already thought about a fall-back plan, start doing that. ❋ Susan Adams (2010)

By far the most important is planning margin, that is being able to quickly, internally, implement fall-back options precisely because the plan was not based on only positive assumptions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The fall-back is to hold up the Post Office as another example of inefficiency. ❋ Unknown (2009)

KIPP officials, saying they need a fall-back if they don't get an agreement from the BTU by June 30, are lobbying for a change in Maryland law that will allow KIPP to make amendments to the Baltimore teachers contract for its own teachers if 80 percent of them approve. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Maybe they ought to consider graphic novels as a fall-back. — ❋ Unknown (2009)

But several Senators have recently endorsed a watered-down version of the public option that builds on existing state employee plans or creates a trigger (a.k.a. “fall-back public option”) that would only establish a public plan if “an arbitrary measure of market concentration were hit in a state” (the White House has also suggested that it is open to such alternatives): ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Liberal fall-back position is the ad-hominem attack. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The $50 billion fund that has been the focus of partisan barbs in the past week is only a fall-back measure if all other components of the bill fail to forestall another financial crisis like the one that occurred in late 2007 and early 2008, Warner said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Allardyce hopes Santa Cruz will stay but lines up Diouf as a fall-back ❋ Unknown (2011)

We understand that this fall-back mechanism is designed to encourage Congress to embrace a more balanced mix of expenditure savings, as the committee might recommend. ❋ Unknown (2011)