If you haven't already thought about a fall-back plan, start doing that.

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So instead, Republicans will fall back upon a Plan B, basically a series of stunts.

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He is acutely aware that the world has arrived at the end of the second era of globalisation without a plan and may fall back on the remedies of the first such era that produced even greater chaos than we are now witnessing.

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He has presented his latest plan as a fall-back, should that prove impossible.

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Successful people have fall back positions and alternative strategies ready, so when misfortune strikes they can move immediately to a new game plan for success.

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