If low growth comes to pass - if growth stagnates and unemployment refuses to fall back - the IMF recommends a new round of quantitative easing by the Bank of England combined with "temporary tax cuts" aimed at people on low incomes, investment and job creation.
At the very least, small-scale and low-tech gemstone-mining could be a fall-back for the country's beleaguered herders.
There are nearly twenty states that have implemented sales tax holidays in conjunction with the annual back-to-school promotions in early fall.
Republicans are drawing up a fall-back strategy to avoid the fiscal cliff if talks with Democrats fall apart.
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Microsoft came out with a surprisingly good smartphone platform way back in fall 2010 -- in some ways, it was better than the iPhone from the moment it launched.
Data from the Conference Board this morning seemed to remove fears from the market that the consumer may fall with the economy into a double-dip recession this Fall, as retailers prepare for back-to-school season.
He has presented his latest plan as a fall-back, should that prove impossible.
If you haven't already thought about a fall-back plan, start doing that.
Riskier, perhaps, is Pakistan's fall-back: to bring the oil down the Himalayas into China, since Islamabad gets transit fees regardless of where the pipeline ends.
Wilkinson did better in the second fall with a back-heel, but Lowery clinched it by reverting to type and winning with a buttock.
It also hits single moms hard: while many families face this huge problem, single mothers have less back-up support if childcare arrangements fall through.
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Phil Mickelson showed improved form with a 67 for eight-under 136, but joint first round leader Webb Simpson, the U.S. Open champion, slumped to a 75 to fall back to five-under.
The yield on the 10-year note rose from around 1.9% in mid-March to a six-month peak of 2.38% on March 19, only to fall back under 2% this week amid safe-haven buying after non-farm-employment data for March failed to meet analyst expectations.
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In situations like this the current fad is to fall back on a fail-fast, fail-early culture.
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For college and university students, fall typically marks the back-to-school time of returning to campuses, classrooms and colleagues.
Located in a nervous neighborhood, Singapore will be tempted to fall back on its security-seeking ways, but economically this would offer little comfort.
How much more difficult would parenting become if we were unable to fall back on that all-purpose appeal to a higher power: "Do as I say, not as I do"?
In August the bank's monetary-policy committee (MPC) forecast that consumer-price inflation would fall back to its official 2% target, but only after a period of economic weakness had drawn its sting.
Brands that start out with high degrees of loyalty and emotional engagement have something better than high degrees of name awareness, or even high degrees of brand awareness with on-board diagnostics to fall back on.
This creates a self-sustaining negative feed back loop as prices fall, produces cut back production, creating more unemployment, reducing demand, which increase deflationary pressures.
That means anyone who shorted--or bet the shares would fall and borrowed them to sell and buy back later, pocketing the difference--is losing money up to now.
As they sat in their cushy Avery Fisher Hall seats listening to ABC brass carry on with its digital opportunities and its self-adulating remarks, they weren't wrong to think the impossible was happening: that ABC would go the way of General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC, which presented its fall slate glitz-free on Monday, and scale back on the pageantry.
Dr Paul Goldwater, from the Women and Children's Hospital in North Adelaide, said that a recent rise in cot deaths in the state of Victoria - despite the "back to sleep" advice - raised question marks over its true role in the fall in sudden infant death.
Glimpses of the Delta Six have been teasing an ultra-realistic and motion-enabled gaming controller since last fall, and now that it's back on Kickstarter, we've gone hands-on with a prototype to see just how it handles.
Shares of Campbell reached points unseen since 2010 in pre-market trading, only to fall back later.
We've got to take it a game at a time and get back on a winning track - then the rest will fall into place.
What would bring first- time buyers back into the market is a fall in house prices, not a policy that seems certain to drive prices higher.
But, now that I look back, his actions clearly fall into a classic seduce-isolate-abuse-repeat pattern.
He expects a second round of price declines: a further 20% fall would bring prices back to their long-run average against earnings.
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