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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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