precarious

• Obama said Chrysler's situation is more precarious, and the government will give the company —  People's Weekly World Blog
• It made the whole thing feel kind of precarious, which injected some very tangible tension into an evening of tragic ballads. —  NOW Magazine
• And it's all just super-fragile and really precarious, as is Wendy's predicament. —  New York Press
• The word precarious has become one of the most (un) fashionable words in Europe. —  Countercurrents.org
• The world, particularly the underdeveloped parts of it, still faces a growing thirst for energy; the fuel supply for much of the world is precarious -- witness pirates hijacking oil tankers and Russia's cutoff of natural gas to parts of Western Europe; the growth in hydrocarbon emissions continues unabated despite good intentions codified in the Kyoto Protocol; and those who wish to acquire, and even use, nuclear weapons still exist. —  Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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