Word: fallback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although the former Senator says he's still working on the fine print, most experts, including some who advised Bradley, agree that his $65 billion-a-year cost estimate is too low. Worse, he expects to use the projected budget surplus to pay for it all but has no fallback plan in the event that the surplus does not materialize. Bradley also overpromises. The subsidies he would provide to the poor in many cases won't be enough to cover actual premium costs if he plans to make good on offering a choice between private insurance plans and the government...
...them every day, whether you like them or not. Up the stairs, down the stairs, there's no avoiding the entryway posse. Come nightfall, though, they're the perfect fallback for a lonely freshman night, the optimal finale to an evening of bar hoping or the natural conclusion to several weeks of flirtatious hi's and bye's. Truly, though, as it ends ultimately uncomfortably for all, entryway-cest is ill-advised and nearly always regrettable...
...what's the fallback position? Youthful indiscretion may fairly describe the Congressman's encounter, but wouldn't it also be fairly described as an inappropriate relationship? Either way, we intend to deplore its revelation, at length and in detail...
...Keane, business also provides a fallback ifhe does not take office, or should lose a publicoffice in the future...
...sensitive files onto floppies. Elect to make an emergency start-up disk, which is a way to boot your system if all else fails. Also during setup you can save a copy of Windows 95. Do this in case you want to revert to your old operating system--a fallback if, say, your Win 98 disk is corrupted. Note, however, that the backup will consume 50 megabytes of space on your hard drive, which you'll want to reclaim later. (Windows 98 hogs 200 megabytes of space and likes an additional 100 megs for wiggle room.) Delete the old operating...