At the very least, small-scale and low-tech gemstone-mining could be a fall-back for the country's beleaguered herders.
Republicans are drawing up a fall-back strategy to avoid the fiscal cliff if talks with Democrats fall apart.
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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.
First, Dr. Perry compromised the Clinton Administration's fall-back position that was supposed to be unveiled at the upcoming Moscow summit: He signalled that the United States would be willing to accept Moscow's assurances that safeguards would be put in place to prevent Tehran from diverting Russian-supplied nuclear technology or materials for weapons-related purposes.
The political fall-out back home lasted long after the final whistle.
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.
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.
Wilkinson did better in the second fall with a back-heel, but Lowery clinched it by reverting to type and winning with a buttock.
For college and university students, fall typically marks the back-to-school time of returning to campuses, classrooms and colleagues.
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.
In situations like this the current fad is to fall back on a fail-fast, fail-early culture.
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Located in a nervous neighborhood, Singapore will be tempted to fall back on its security-seeking ways, but economically this would offer little comfort.
Once the hook is set, the North Koreans often fall back on the hard-line tactics for which they are famous--stalling, outrageous brinkmanship, storming out of talks.
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"?
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.
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.
The leaders of the health care industry and the medical profession, not to mention the political establishment, have a single, all-purpose response they fall back on whenever somebody suggests that the United States might usefully study foreign health care systems: "But it's socialized medicine!"
They say the Iranians are also funding, training and arming recently-formed local Popular Committee militias, separate from the shabiha militia network, seeing them as a structure they could continue to rely on if the regime should collapse and fall back on the Alawite-dominated areas on the north-west coast and its hinterland.
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.
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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They fall into two categories, the back-to-nature types and the plain nutcases.
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.
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.
He expects a second round of price declines: a further 20% fall would bring prices back to their long-run average against earnings.
Hleb linked with marauding full-back Arthur Boka and the former Arsenal man's cutback was missed by Pavel Pogrebniak right in front of goal, only for the ball to fall kindly for his team-mate at the back post.
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